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to hear you Way be in a position to

establish clear care fo banning the Organisati altogether hom the

Colony,

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 view to a case being

established for 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 Kwartung

and Kwangsi, that the opportune moment had arrived for

the organidation to be banner altogether from the Colony,

5. I shall be glad, therefore, if you will guide

yourself by the views expressed 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.

I have, etc.,