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DISABLED SECRET
The War Office,
Whitehall,
29 July, 1941.
Dear
Gent, 8.
Re your 54058/3/41 of 23/7.
S.W.1.
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9
4.
We agree with your views.
We feel that it is not a matter on which
we need ask for any further information from G.0.C. Hong Kong.
The matter does, however, seem to have been handled weakly if not badly. We should be grateful if you would get the Governor to review his precautions to prevent a recurrence of such 'homing' instincts. The stationing of police proposed in the penultimate paragraph of Hong Kong telegram of 16/7 seems hardly an adequate safeguard how would a Hong Kong policeman respond to a British woman disguised as, say, a stewardess or coloured labourer. Could not the onus be put on the shipping companies by legislation to restrict the embarkation of passengers to those in possession of a certificate authorizing their shipment to Hong Kong. Such permits to be issued after reference to the Hong Kong Government through Consular sources.
Yours
sincerely 7c. Scott.
G.E.J. Gent, Esq., C.M.G., D.S.O.,
Colonial Office,
S.W.1.
0.B. E.,
M.C.
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