CO129-604-5 Immigration- control over entry from China 4-3-1948 - 6-1-1949 — Page 35

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Minister of State

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For Mr. Wallace's signature.

Your Reference

DRAFT.

A. L. SCOTT, ESQ.,

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FOREIGN OFFICE.

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Please refer to earlier

correspondence about the alleged right

of Chinese to enter or settle in

Hong Kong which at present rests with

Mayle's letter to you of the 5th November

1947. I enclose a copy of a letter (with enclosures cxcept Annex C)

dated the 4th March 1948 from MacDougall

commenting on your letter of the 23rd

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October 1947/which, as mentioned by

Mayle, was sent but to MacDougall.

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I also enclose Z copies of a

Memorandum by our Legal Advisers on the subject. You will see that in the last

paragraph of the Memorandum proper at

page 7 it is suggested that you should

be asked to amplify your previous

statement about the prescriptive right

of Chinese to enter or settle in Hong

Kong, and also to say whether, in view of the Immigration and Deportation Legislation referred to in the Memorandum

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(which was not previously brought to

your notice), you would now agree that

hobably

the Chinese have/acquired no prescriptive

right