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feasibility of preventing influx of refugees
or infiltration of communists over land frontier.
2.
Possibility of infiltration of fommunists
gno drobit, by sea also exists and would be accentuated if
entry by land frontier were prevented or made
Possibility of considerable influx
difficult.
of refugees by sea also perhaps exists.
3. the following occurs in Hong Kong telegram
No. 1101 of the 26th September 1941. Begins:-
Scheme for checking illicit entry by junk is
being actively worked out and will, I hope,
come into operation very shortly. Ends.
It was explained that the scheme related to the
Colony as a whole, not to Hong Kong Island only.
There is no other reference to this scheme beES.
CO, records .
4.
I should be lad of your views as to
desirability and feasibility of introducing
control of entry by sea in present circumstances.
Any scheme would presumably involve in mor or
less degree (a) coast-ratebing on land and (b) patrol by sea.