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Confidential Secret. Top-Secret and Personal:
In the course of recent Ministerial
been questioned discussions I have frequently felt the need for
:
further information in regard to your proposals
for the introduction of a registration system
for the civil population of Hong Kong.
should be very grateful, therefore,
I
if you would an up todate furnish me as soon as possible with wreed
appreciation of the problem, and of your proposals
Exa for meeting it.
I feel surė, wie,
are aware that
registration formed a valuable security measure
in dealing with Communist trouble
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troubles/in
in Malaya.
I am well are of the peculiar difficulties in
Hong Kong, and that a system of registration
in the New Territories villages is already being.
proceeded with (your telegram to Deputy Commissioner-
General Colonial Affairs, Singapore, repeated to
me and his telegram No. 151 refers), but what I
am particularly anxious to know is :-
(1) how long it is expected that a
complete registration would
take;
(2) what the estimated cost would
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be;
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