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EXTRACT FROM A SAVINGRAM ADDRESSED TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES BY HONG
KONG
Date:
14th May 1949
No. 82 SECRET
Secretariat File: 9/3571/49s.
(R) British Embassy, Nanking (No. 45)
Consulate General, Shanghai (No. 19)
Comm.-Gen., S.E.A. (No. 62)
British Embassy, Bangkok (No. 89) Consul-General, Canton (No. 35) High Comm., Kuala Lumpur (No. 87) British Legation, Manila (No. 88) G.O.C., Hong Kong.
Copy to D.S.0.
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5. The Communist capture of Nanking and the threat to Shanghai have resulted in an appreciable increase in the number of refugees and other people flocking into the Colony. is calculated that the net increase in population due to these arrivals over the past five months has been over 80,000, and of these over half have been in the last four or five weeks, as many as 18,000 arriving in one week. Serious attention is being given to this problem.
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