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COPY FOR REGISTRATION
CYPHER TELEGRAM
FROM
0. A.
D. 9th January, 1941.
R. 9th
"
15.25 hrs.
HONG KONG
IMMEDIATE
No. 23.
Received in Registry
10 JAN 1941
Addressed to Chungking No. 3 repeated to
S. of S. for the Colonies No. 23 Shanghai No. 6.
52/-/40
Your telegram No. 8 to Foreign office.
Second paragraph.
This of course re-states practice of universal
(1) application.
(2) I have no objection to imposition of such demands on British subjects entering China or, even preferably, waiving of visa requirements on Chinese passports as suggested in your 3rd paragraph.
(3) Maximum would be imposed only in cases of exceptional suspicion; normal demand will be only 25 to 100 dollars according to class of travel.
(4) That the fee is readily paid is proved by the great flood of applicants; rates are subject to revision; chief object of the fee is to make the organization self-supporting.
(5) Entrants may come at own risk and give cash guarantee on arrival; cases mentioned.
no hardship is seen in the
(6) This would be true in normal times but the defence aspect of the legislation has been indicated in the last paragraph of my telegram No. 170 (7751) of 22nd November to S. of S. for Colonies.
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Proclamation issued yesterday brings ordinance into effect on 15th January. As already reported measure has fullest approval of Chinese population
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