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for the Hong Kong Government, and the dangers which those
activities represent to good government in the Colony
and whilst I greatly regret that the attention of the
Hong Kong Administration should be distracted in this
way, Nevertheless, I have come to the conclusion that,
for the present and until it is possible to see more
the
likely clearly how/Chinese internal situation is going to
develop, the Hong Kong Government should confine itself
to surveillance of the activities of the Kuomintang and
to countering those activities by such ad hoc measures as
may be possible, including where necessary the expulsion
of individual members of the organisation whose activities
are clearly detrimental to the maintenance of law and
order in the Colony. At the same time, I entirely
agree that the Hong Kong Government should, as recommended
in paragraph 10 of Sir Mark Young's despatch No.13 of the
17th April, 1947, concentrate upon the task of collecting
evidence against the Kuomintang, as an organisation, with
a case beingestablished for
a view to/its eventual expulsion, should the circumstances
foreshadowed in paragraph 3 above materialise, and should
you then consider, with due regard to the possible
repercussions of such action on the relations of Hong Kong
with the provinces of Kwantung and Kwangsi, that the
opportune moment had arrived for the organisation to be
banned altogether from the Colony.
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5. I shall be glad, therefore, if you will proceed Yourself by the views expresand in in accordance with the directions in the preceding
paragraph, and if you will report further to me on the
subject in, say, six months' time, or sooner, should you
consider this to be desirable. Meanwhile, I should not
wish you to feel precluded from raising with me again the
question of the possible expulsion of the Kuomintang from
Hong Kong should you at any time feel that their
activities were having such gravely prejudicial effects
on the Colony's life that the situation could be remedied
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