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I to.

Ref 4. Agrees. Suggests

guard

in an internment

4/1739

men be detained wonder

camp for duration of

present Lostilities for the expense of you. Of H. K.

(I don't know

why

this was not funt on

before.)

The F.O.

agree

that these men will have to

remain in HK. for the duration

&

the print

hostilities. This new is hardly likely to be

appreciated prima facie in HK.,

so I suppot

? tel. to HR. as in draft hen with,

followed by a desp. explaining

upson which this decision has be

referring

the Matous

ba Best

to 8. For ords to show the low.

that i did our best to avoid

men is question

a

we might also

making

the

total burden on the Colony,

say

that we had considered

the possibility of treating

them as o

is ordinary

uritian refugees (su para. 38 No. 4), but

that this

reffestion

was considend inexpedient

in new of its possible consequences -explaining

as in 9.

A. N. Galsworthy

10/1

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