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Above considerations would not preclude

adoption of your proposals in respect of persons proceeding to Hong Kong from areas still under control of Nationalist Government.

5. I agree in principle with the stages by which you propose to affect control, but I realise that the position Bay already have arisen in which you may wish to proceed to stage 3 forthwith. In that event, I should be glad of fuller detallo of measures you envisage for controlling land frontier, arrivale by train and removal of junks and small craft, also what economic repercussions, if any, you anticipate o

6. A further examination of the Tamigration Control Ordinands, 1949, here hae rovealed certain points on which I shall addrose you further separately.

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to Nanking and Canton) «

Copies sent to:-

Foreign Office

M.1.5.

C.R.O.

Mr. Scarlett

LAR

*. Coates

M. E.. Busk, Esq.

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