be provided at arrival wharves, with legal steps to force
shipmasters to take rejects back to ports of origin.
Later the examination of credentials should, if practicable,
take place at selected places in China (Canton, Wuchow, Swatow
etc.). All this is on the lines of the 1940 Immigration
Control but should be less elaborate than that machinery.
Passenger-carrying junks and sampans would need
6.
particular attention.
7
On first re-occupation a simple form of registration
of all existing inhabitants will be necessary (if only for purposes of rationing etc.) and no imigration should be allowed
until this is complete. The surviving population will probably
not be very great and will be well accustomed to such regimentation.
New entries should be similarly registered.
8.
The question of the establishment of one or more
Immigration Control Departments should receive early consideration.
9. How long it will be before such registration can be
abolished must depend on the labour situation, the recovery of.
local industries, the relief situation in Hong Kong and South China and many other factors, including questions of general security.
Colonial Office,
8th October, 1945.
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