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Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
DRAFT.
P.D. COATES, ESQ.,
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. S.
Minister of State
Secretary of State
Your Reference F. 16710/154/10
FOREIGN OFFICE.
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FURTHER ACTION.
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Dear Coates
Thank you for sending me a copy
of Lamb's letter to you No. S/O 663
(110/1079/48) of the 11th November, 1948,
about the alleged right of Chinese to
enter or settle in Hong Kong.
There is one small point in it on
which you may think it worth while to send
Lamb a line. It appears from the third
paragraph of his letter that he has not
quite appreciated that Hong Kong
Ordinance No.32 of 1940, the provisions of
which give complete control over entry
into the Colony, makes no exception for the
Chinese (see Appendix to the Memorandum
by our Legal Advisers, copies of which were
sent to Scott with my letter of the
12th October, 1948). Chinese are as liable
in law under this Ordinance as any other
foreigner. The only difference is one of
practice. As pointed out in my letter of
the 6th December to you this Ordinance has
in fact been recently enforced against
Chinese arriving from all countries other
than China and it is there ready to be
enforced at any moment if desired, against
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Chinese coming from China.
Y.S