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There has been excessive hesitation in my opinion on the part of the .. regarding this 3ill in Hong Kong to give the Governor power to control Chinese immigration into the colony. There is an important defence interest in this measure since Hong Kong, in the face of ste conditions and a Japanese army occupying the neghbouring Chinese territory, must be able to take special measures to prevent the colony from being flooded with chinese refugees.
The Chinese Ambassador has protested to the Foreign office against such a restriction of the traditional freedom of chinese to enter the colony and we delayed the actual promulgation of the Ordinance (which the Legislative Council has now passed with the support of the three chinese Members of Council) pending a reference to H-M's. Ambassador in China. His reply is in No.41 but still the Foreign office require further reference to the Ambassador, which I understand is to take the form of their Proposing to agree to the Orde being brought into effect in the immediate future, subject to any further observations which sir A. Clark Carr may have That telegram will be repeated to Hong kong and sir A. Clarke Carr's reply similarly.
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