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against the owner) and we might add that we should be
glad to receive as soon as possible his comments on the letter from the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, dated the 10th September (see 49533).
I think we should telegraph this, as time is of importance, and it may well be that unless rapid action is taken the Germans may at the end of the war find their houses in China ruined and their houses in Hong Kong preserved and capable of being used as the basis for
fresh commercial campaign in the Far East. copy of any
Forys telegram sent should of course go to the Ben Office. I do not go into the points of detail raised in the letter from the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in 49333, as we shall no doubt receive the Governor's comments in due
course. The question about the removal of the interned enemies to Australia gives rise to differert considera- tions from the rest of the letter, and the Department may wish to give this part of the letter separate con- sideration.
As to the prisoners,
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we had better
ask for the fovernor's views. The Ceylon
• 5.5. prisoners have been sent to Aushalia, in order
to set free men from guard duty & because of the recent disturbances in those Colonies. H. K
on the other hand asked some time
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to take charge of ferman prisoners from Ising too, with a view to impressing the Chinese.
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