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DRAFT DESPATCH

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GOVERNOR,

HONG KONG

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AS DRAFT FOR FOREIGN OFFICE CONCURRENCE

July, 1947.

NO

TOP SECRET

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FURTHER ACTION.

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Activities of the Kuomintang in

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Hong Kong

In his Top Secret despatch No.13 of the

17th April, 1947, on the subject of the policy

to be adopted by the Hong Kong Government

towards the activities of the Kuomintang in

the Colony, Sir Mark Young expressed the view

that no real advantage would be gained by

seeking to persuade the Chinese Government to

post to the Headship of the Kuomintang Branch

in Hong Kong a person who would work in a

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proper relationship of subordination to the

diplomatic Tepresentative of that Government

in Hong Kong; and that in these circumstances,

whilst no means should be neglected of

countering the activities of the Kuomintang

in Hong Kong by such ad hoc measures as might

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be possible, the only really satisfactory course would be to adopt as a long-term objective the

expulsion of the Kuomintang from the Colony.

Sir Mark Young, therefore proposed that the

Hong Kong Government should concentrate upon

the task of collecting evidence with a view

to the expulsion of the organisation when the

case against them is complete or an emergency

demands that such a step be taken.

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