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convey communication to the other Germans in Canton and elsewhere in China with a view to aiding sedition and revolution.
The large and successful hold the Germans had of the trade of the Colony naturally has its effect on the minds of the Chinese with whom they did business and so long as the latter see with what care we take of the lives and health of the interned German business men so long will they refrain from commencing new relations with the British houses. Germans in China have of course taken care to in- stil into the Chinese mind that as soon as the war is over they will be ready to do business again and that it is no use for them to start new business relationships for the short period of the war. The long local residence of H.E. the Governor and his knowledge of the Chinese character will doubtless enable him to impress on the Home Government that such ideas are not absurd and that to disabuse them
and enable trade to be resumed, the only business like course to pursue is to ship the Germans away to Australia. Owing to the smallness of the Colony the present position of the Campi is doubtless the most convenient but if the analogy of a German Concentration Camp in say the Green Park could be
brought to the minds of the Home Officials as much less
objectionable no doubt they would appreciate the above
argument.
The British community do not want the Germans
back in Hongkong ready to start business again as soon as the war closes, with their business houses and workpeople all ready to hand, to make a fresh start. It is neither sound business nor mere justice to the Britishers in this Colony and this Chamber therefore respectfully asks that
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