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AIDE MEMOIRE.
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1.
In accordance with the provision of the
Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong, 1898,
Chinese nationals can enter Hong Kong freely.
In an official statement explaining the objects
and reasons for the enactment of the Expulsion
of Undesirables to the Ordinance, 1949, the Hong
Kong Government seems to imply that the free ingress
into Hong Kong was granted to the Chinese as a matter
of tradition. It is however the view of the Special
Commissioner for Foreign Affairs that the enactment of
the Expulsion Ordinance does not in any way affect
the right of the Convention, 1898, nor can the
Ordinance be construed as to have altered in any way
the treaty obligation assumed by Great Britain under
the said Convention.