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Dear Gershon Stewart,

Downing Street.

5th July, 1917.

Many thanks for your letter about the question

of the exclusion of Germans from Hong Kong after the

war.

The Governor appears to have opposed the resolution on economic grounds, his argument being that exclusion was undesirable on those grounds unless the sace policy were adopted by surrounding countries.But,

any case, the views of an individual

gam to a particular Colony will not decide

ph must be treated imperially on broad

y, and it would, I think, be a istake to pportance to the views expressed by

is particular occasion.

Sincerely yours

(sd) W.H.L.

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