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hand as Mr. Scott has pointed out telegram No. 263 from Hong Kong a copy of which I attach does not
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Paragraph 5 of the attached
telegram No. 494 of the 15th November
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from Hong Kong is important. that immigration restrictions against Chinese have been lifted. The implication is that the only check on Chinese flooding| in to Hong Kong is the luck of
communications and transport Mr. Mayle feels, however, that there must still be some system of military permits. C.A. 4 7 had told me and have confirmed to-day th t military permits are not required by the Military Administration in Hong Kong al- though they are required in Malaya and India. C.A.4 explain this by saying that only persons sponsored by the Military authorities are in fact able to
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reach Hong Kong. It seems to me, was Le however, that they are looking at this from the point of view solely of Europeans coming to Hong Kong from this country and I doubt if they really know the position in regard to Chinese.
Mr. Scott of the Foreign Office has telephoned me several times during the past few days about a number of telegrams from the Ambassador in Chungking on the subject of the return of the Chinese generally to liberated territories. He says that copies of these have been sent to the Colonial Office and thut he is urgently waiting our views in order to draft a reply to the Ambassador One
Zalew or two of these papers are on "Tiles 55273 attrehed and others are I understand on Eastern Economic files. Some cannot be traced. If, however, it is a fact there is now no restriction whatever on the entry of Chinese into Hong Kong this provides the answer to the Ambassador as far as Hong Kong is concerned. I suggest therefore that it is important to confirm the position and that we should
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