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Up to October 15th total of over 260 passengers
from LEYTE, YUING, DIZI, BYDNEY and Calcutta had arrived by ir at K I TAF, and ɛ total of 240 passengers going to SYDNEY, CEY OL SOUR: AFRIC. SING ON, SKAGNI and various airfields in COUM CMIMA left by air from the Colony. Several of these Passengers wore Service personnel for denobilisation.
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Sentinel aircraft based at 171-Tak lave flown an uir survy for the Roy 1 .vy for a asible 1/T station.
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7 Coronados of the U.3. lavy arrived on October 14th and are now noored t KO LOON docks. They have their own suply ship ndro entirely self-supporting. reported to ir 1.6. but it is believe they will be doing
They have not trols from SING. O to, using this Colony as a base. It is also understand that they will carry out a mail service for the light flest e rriers of the U.5.. ich will be visiting the Colony.
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ANGLOCINJOM KAN WIOM:
The British Ambassador to CMIM, in his monthly for August 1945 reports that the disagreement over the manner of surrender at 10: @ ONG cast shadow in the highest cu rters in C UC IG
Government, ys the report, decided that there to
bl. nce of ivant pe i. lotting CHIANG
A II buvo his way in the matter nd i was to be hoped that ho would return the compliment by iplonating the statesmanlike policy outlined in the important statant nude by the Generalissimo
t joint session of the Suprone M tional Defence Council and the Central Executive Committee on ugust 25th. In this st. toment CIL MK I- I recognised that the ricbus of HONG KONG VE roqul, tod by treati00 ic sould be honoured, ti ugh in the case of KOWLOO" this should not roman an exception from the progressive rtura of los d territori but C would settle this 19 issue through diplomatic t lite butween the two countries. The Ge vor listino 100, rups siificantly, that the relations
between FRANCE:AL CI
a b consirably improved by the sign. ture of the agreement covering the rostortion of KWANGCHO TAN to the Chinese dininistr.tion signol et CHUNGKIFO on August 18th.
The CITUMING press also had something to say on the subject of 0G 10. On August 30th the T. HUG 10 said tht Sino-British ruletions had bun slightly ruffled by the problem of taking back HONG HONG but that the misunderst. ning Vasca. They are not willing to inpir precious Sino-British friendship for the sake of profit. In ny case the value of
TONG KONG should be re-estim ted.
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try base it was of little use without the nainln2. s a corTrci 1 b.se it was nore important, but if there re another nort in K (MCTC the prosperity of HONG 10 ould be in motion. For commerci 1 rul tions, friendship between two countries was more import:nt
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in the occution of a "ort. HONG KONGs a British ffair, KOVLOOI AAm nequired by BRIT from offoto Manchu Government under uner w.l trutios. Such a system of concessions should not continue to exist then the unecul troties themselves had been abolished. Otherwise there would be a 1k in tino-British friendship. The Labour Cov.rnment had idor is. They (the Chinese) believed that those idols would be shown in its foreign rol tions. Then not only the question of KO LOON but that of HONG KONG also couldbe settled reason bly.
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