CO129-587-15 Excess Population Reduction Committee Report- Chinese Immigration Bill 1-10-1940 - 6-1-1941 — Page 49

In any further communication on this subject, please quote

No. F 4410/43/10

and address-

not to any person by name

but to

"The Under-Secretary of State,”

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

Immediate.

Sir,

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Foreign Office.

S.W.1.

1st October, 1940.

RECEIVED

2 OCT 1940

C.O. REGY

I am directed by Viscount Halifax to inform you that the Chinese Ambassador called on the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State on the 23rd September, and asked him to make investigations about a report which he had

received on the subject of proposed new immigration laws at Hong Kong. Dr. Quo had heard that these would provide that all Chinese should be in possession of a passport, and he pointed out that such a requirement would be unprecedented in the history of the colony; he would be much obliged therefore if he could be furnished for his own information and that of his Government with further information on the matter. Dr. Quo reverted to this question

at/

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.