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Governor faces have been vastly increased in every direction. At the same time
we are not convinced that the situation is such as to warrant large scale expulsion, which is presumably what the Governor contemplates. In any case, we understand from Hong Kong telegram No. 604 that considerable difficulty is being experienced in inducing the Chinese authorities to accept over the frontier even relatively small number of persons who are being deported under the Deportation of Aliens Ordinance. It therefore seems in the highest degree unlikely that the Chinese would accept with equanimity mass expulsions from the Colony.
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4.* In these circumstances, and in view of Chinese reactions to the recent tightening of immigration control, and to other problems of a like nature, such as the aircraft case, we feel that neither is the time appropriate nor the present situation to be one of such emergency for the Governor to take action under the Expulsion of Undesirable Ordinance. Indeed, we fear that if he were to do so the repercussions might be serious, both for the Colony and for our general relations with China.
yours
timerely
فست
(N.C.C. Trench)
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