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NO CONFIDENTIAL.
Sir,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
9th April, 1934.
I have the honour to refer to my despatch [1] in 33800/3/34 No. 234 of 9th April, 1934 forwarding for the significa-
tion of His Majesty's pleasure an Ordinance intituled
"An Ordinance to provide for the registration of certain
persons."
2.
This Government has for some time given its
attention to measures designed to prevent the spread of
Communist propaganda in the Colony, and in particular
to guard against the use of Hong Kong by Communist Agents
as a centre from which to organise subversive activities
in South China. Much good work in this connection has
been done by the political branch of the Criminal
Intelligence Department of the Police since its organisation
in 1931.
3.
Some difficulty has however been experienced
by the Police in obtaining information regarding the
presence and whereabouts in the Colony of aliens whose
activities are open to suspicion and it is felt that the
legislation now introduced will facilitate the observation
of such persons while causing the minimum of inconvenience
to aliens resident in the Colony whose bona fides is
beyond question.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.
&C.,
&c.,
&C.
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