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Mr. Caine 8/2/28.,

Mr. Ellis.

Mr.

Mr. Bottomleyf

Mr. E. J. Harding.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Sir G. Grindle.

Sir C. Davis.

Sir S. Wilson.

Mr. Ormsby-Gore.

Lord Lovat.

Mr. Amery.

DRAFT.

U.S. OF S.

F.0.

2 drafts.

30081/27 Hong Kong.

Confidential.

Sir,

Ansund 103

52799/28

Downing Street

14 Feb. 1928.

I am etc. to transmit to you,

to be laid before Sec. Sir Austen

Chamberlain, a copy of a despatch from

Acting

the/Govr. of Hong Kong, in which he .

discusses the general question of

recruitment in Hong Kong of Chinese

labour for service abroad. The

discussion has arisen out of applications

to recruit Chinese labour in Hong Kong

for service in Sarawak and Dutch East

Borneo.

2. As Sir Austen Chamberlain is

no doubt aware, the Cabinet decided on

the 29th June that, from the political

point of view, it was impossible to

acquiesce in a proposal to introduce

Chinese labourers into the New Hebrides.

It