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CHINA ASSOCIATION,

99 Cannon Street,

LONDON.E.C.4.

57449

RECO

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18th November,

1918.

Sir:-

REG 29 NOV 18

The following telegram has been received from

the Hongkong Branch of this Association:-

"Mass meeting held there on 7th Nov., unanimously

passed following resolution:- that it is the opinion

of this meeting that the interned prisoners deported

from this Colony to Australia should at the con-

clusion of the war not be permitted to return here or to China but should be repatri ted to Germany and

this meeting hereby reaffirms its unalterable con- viction that no German subject shall be allowed to reside in this Colony or trade here for a period of

years.

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I am directed by the Chairman to say that he

would like to call at the Foreign Office to discuss this question, and that he would be much obliged

you would kindly inform me what day and hour would

suit your convenience for an interview.

I have &c. (IED). H.C. Wilcox.

Under Secretary of State,

for Foreign Affairs,

Downing Street, A.W.1.

Secretary.

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