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P.W. SCARLETT, ESQ.

FOREIGN OFFICE.

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Kowloon City Squatters

Thank you very much for your letter

F.918/154/10 of the 23rd January, to which

we have given very careful consideration.

We can see the force of your argument

that we should first seek to bridle the

refugee personalities and organisations

within the Colony before tackling the.

question of Kuomintang activities, and the

suggestion made by the Governor of Hong Kong

that the Chinese Government should be asked

to withdraw the Kuomintang and the San Min

Chu I Youth Corps from the Colony. The case

for accepting the assurances of the Chinese

Minister for Foreign Affairs in regard to

the "National Times" and for deferring the-

Governor's sugjestion. that we should take the

present opportunity to ask the Chinese

Government to withdraw the "National Times"

from Hong Kong, and the case for not adopting

the Governor's further suggestion that we

should take the present opportunity to seek

the regularisation of the position of the

representative of the Chinese Government in

Hong Kong do not seem to us to be so strong.

However,