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Mr. Sidebotham 31. /5/49.

Mr.

Paskin

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SAVINGRAM

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GOVERNOR,

HONG KONG,

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Reply urgently required. Important:( Immediate.

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Confidential Secret. Top-Secret and Personal:

In the course of recent Ministerial

been questioned discussions I have frequently felt the need for

:

further information in regard to your proposals

for the introduction of a registration system

for the civil population of Hong Kong.

should be very grateful, therefore,

I

if you would an up todate furnish me as soon as possible with wreed

appreciation of the problem, and of your proposals

Exa for meeting it.

I feel surė, wie,

are aware that

registration formed a valuable security measure

in dealing with Communist trouble

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troubles/in

in Malaya.

I am well are of the peculiar difficulties in

Hong Kong, and that a system of registration

in the New Territories villages is already being.

proceeded with (your telegram to Deputy Commissioner-

General Colonial Affairs, Singapore, repeated to

me and his telegram No. 151 refers), but what I

am particularly anxious to know is :-

(1) how long it is expected that a

complete registration would

take;

(2) what the estimated cost would

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be;

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