OUTWARD TELEGRAM
FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES
Турех
COPY FOR REGISTRATION
TO HONG KONG (0.A.G.)
Sent 21st October, 1950.
11.00 hrs.
57 H452
No. 1574 Confidential.
Following from Foreign Office to Peking No. 1631 Repeated to Tamsui and Hong Kong. Begins.
of 20th October.
(53) 740132
Hong Kong telegram 1149 to Colonial Office.
We should be grateful for your comments and particularly to know whether you consider any useful purpose would be served by sending a further reminder to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2.
If we cannot expect any response from them, it would appear to us that there would now be no alternative but to proceed with such arrangements as can be made to send as many as possible of these refugees as quickly and quietly as possible to Formosa; Their continued retention in Hong Kong clearly involves the risk of political embarrassment at a future date quite apart from the immediate serious financial problem.
Ends.
RECEIVED 24001 1350 COLONIAL OFFICE
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