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SAVINGRAM
To the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
From the Governor, Hong Kong,
April, 1947.
Rept'd
to:
Date..
23rd.
No.
23.
RECEIVED
SECRET
7 MAY 1947
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C. O. REGY
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Special Commissioner Singapore, No. 84. British Ambassador, Nanking, No. 23. Consul-General,
Canton, No. 44.
Following is a short appreciation of factors in
Hong Kong which may affect foreign policy covering the period
ended 14th April, 1947.
(a) Interest or activity in the Colony on the part of any
foreign country.
The recent statement made by Sir Alexander Grantham, Governor-designate of Hong Song, in a press interview in
America, to the effect that he believed that Hong Kong would
remain a British Colony, aroused little comment in the local
Chinese Press. In fact the only newspaper which commented on
Sir Alexander's statement was the Kuomintang-controlled "National
Times", which incidentally has one of the smallest circulations
in the Colony. In a long article entitled "Britain, the British
and British Colonial Policy" the newspaper first refers
sympathetically to Britain's trials during the war from which
she eventually emerged victorious like her ally China.
The
British people have always been far-sighted but they are