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Mr. Stewart. To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether a proposal of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce to the effect that Germans should not be allowed to return to the colony for some time after the conclusion of the war was rejected by the legislative council, the whole official voto being cast against it; whether this vote represents the view of the Government at Home; and whether Germans after the war will be free to re-enter our Crown Colonies, especially those where there is a large Native population, in view of the risk of a repetition of hostile German intrigue, which was used so much to our detriment in the past in India, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and elsewhere. [Thursday 21st June.]

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