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restrictions are removed.

2.

Suggested committee might co-

operate in similar organisation at ports concerned in making such housing or other arrangements as may be necessary with

approach of winter.

I should be glad to have your authority to proceed on above lines as soon as possible in which case suggested government statement might not now be necessary and a notification again explaining situation with steps now being taken to deal with difficult cases would be published in the

local press.

Repeated to Foreign Office, Peking, Hongkong, copy to Commander-in-Chief and Major General.

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