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to specifically and exclusively Indian interests is concerned.
My representations on behalf of Indians are, on the whole,
as successful as representations on behalf of any other
British interests.
I am a little puzzled by the last
sentence in the despatch under reference, calling for
reports on action taken on behalf of the Government of
India, and assume that, as hitherto, no special report on such representations is necessary unless they are of outstanding interest or importance.
4.
I am, however, dissatisfied with the Hong Kong authorities in connexion with their response to my
representations on behalf of Indians, and would suggest (with all deference) that in the Far East the Government
of India, so far as my experience goes, have more cause
to complain of the treatment of their interests in Hong Kong by the British Colonial Government, than in foreign
countries by H.M. representatives there. The case of
Benares Khan, the subject of my despatch No. 117 of the
13th August, 1935, is a typical example. I am constantly communicating with the Hong Kong police on behalf of Indians who want to go there, and to judge from the difficulties they put in the way of British Indians going to the Colony one might well imagine that the latter were the most undesirable foreigners,
It would, I think surprise anyone
who did not know the facts to learn of the somewhat harsh
treatment extended to them, and that Chinese, who are allowed into the Colony with the utmost freedom, are foreigners.
6. There is, I suppose, nothing to be done aboutthis, but my difficulties with the Hong Kong authorities are possibly interesting in view of the declared policy of
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