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these circumstances, and so long as Sir Mark Young is fit and ready to return, which he 18, we could not consider the suggestion for the appointment of
gomeone else as Governor on the resumption of civil
the
were
is be strictly
liinitia
administration, even if only for a short period of that appst If, therefore, the difficulties that are likely to
arise in connection with the passage through the
(med handling by some Service territory of Chinese forces are such as to justify Them a
the continuance of military administration, with all that it implies, that seems to be the only course to
adopt. But I take leave to doubt whether, this 10 90. On his record during the Japanese assault on Hong Kong,
soumat
Бололу
there would certainly be no justification for assuming
that Sir Mark Young would not be able to cope with
thead way)
with the
any difficulties arising out of the passage of Chinese. ferees through the territory at present.
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