CO129-587-15 Excess Population Reduction Committee Report- Chinese Immigration Bill 1-10-1940 - 6-1-1941 — Page 15

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4. Meanwhile I am sending preliminary reply to Minister for Foreign Affairs saying that though I am transmitting his observations to you, I do not wish to encourage him to think that there is any serious hope of getting ordinance amended in any important particular or its application postponed; that Hong Kong Government has promised it will be sympathetically administered; and that in my view, Chinese Government should wait and SC ow it works out in practice.

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lepeated to Hong kong telegram No. 2, Shanghai telegram

[Copy sent to Secretary of State for Colonies],

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