CO129-555-11 Benares Khan- admission to Hong Kong 7-11-1935 - 5-12-1935 — Page 13

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FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.

7th November, 1985.

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Dear Cowell,

We have received under cover of a private letter

from the Ambassador at Peking copies of correspondence

relating to the case of one Benares Khan and as it

contains matters which we do not care to take up

officially but which nevertheless it seems desirable

should be brought to the attention of the Colonial Office,

I am sending you copies of the whole correspondence

so that you may take such action as you deem appropriate

in the matter.

You will observe that though Benares Khan was

He is

not in possession of the necessary documentary evidence

for the grant of a British passport there can be no

reasonable doubt that he is a British subject.

referred to throughout the correspondence as a 'British

subject' or a 'British Indian'. He seems to be of

good character, had a promise of employment in Hongkong

mia bable coll Corry to trid. Thomas

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H.R. Cowell, Esq., C.M.G.

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