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You will, I think, be interested to see the report of the "Excess Population Reduction Committee" at on this file. What action should be taken on the report is at the moment, of course, a matter for the local Government. The Committee, however, have felt that the situation in Hong Kong calls for drastic measures. They suggest that the present methods of controlling immigration to the Colony should be revised by the introduction of a system of entry on passport or other form of entry permit, and that, as a temporary measure pending the establishment of a scheme on these lines, passenger entries by junk should be prohibited and the number of vessels permitted to bring passengers in the case of steamers should be reduced. They also recommend increased resort to the powers of deportation or expulsion for which provision is at present made in legislation. As regards refugees fleeing from actual hostilities their suggestion is that areas immediately across the Colony's frontiers should be allowed to be used as a sort of shelter until bombings and hostilities had ceased when the refugees would have to cross the frontier again. They also suggest that all existing refugee camps and squatter settlements should be transferred to the north of the main defence line on the Kowloon Peninsula. recommendation has the support of the military authorities.

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