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R. 3- SEP D. 11.9
31-27
12 Sept 1947
Anos. (5) an '48 file.
Activities of the Kuomintang
in Hong Kong
In his Top Secret despatch No.13 of the
17th April, 1947, on the subject of the policy to be
adopted by the Hong Kong Government towards the
activities of the Kuomintang in the Colony, Sir Mark Young
expressed the view that no real advantage would be gained
by seeking to persuade the Chinese Government to post to
the Headship of the Kuomintang Branch in Hong Kong a
person who would work in a proper relationship of
subordination to the diplomatic representative of that
Government in Hong Kong; and that in these circumstances,
whilst no means should be neglected of countering the
activities of the Kuomintang in Hong Kong by such
ad hoc measures as might be possible, the only really
satisfactory course would be to adopt as a long-term
objective the expulsion of the Kuomintang from the
Colony. Sir Mark Young therefore proposed that the
Hong Kong Government should concentrate upon the task
of collecting evidence with a view to the expulsion
of the organisation when the case against them is
complete or an emergency demands that such a step be
taken.
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2. Sir Mark Young's recommendations have been
carefully studied in conjunction with the Foreign Office,
and account has been taken of the views expressed by
His Majesty's Ambassador in Nanking in the latter's
despatch to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
No. 214, repeated to Hong Kong by safe hand as No.124,
of the 12th June, 1947. As a result of that study,
/I agree
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