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Thank you for your lettera of the 16th and 19th April about Bong Kong, and for the copy of the svmorandum on trede sattere there prepared by your brother.

So far as the general gestion of the maintenance of our position in Hong long is concerned, there is nothing 1 can add to shat mes said in the

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flouse during the debate on the 5th May. announcement then made vill, I hops, effectively dispel any suggestion that His Majesty's Covernment is contempleting the ren«ilion of the colony.

I have not beard anything of the tendency referred to in the second paragraph of your letter of the 16th April.

On the question of the free ingress of Chinese Lato Hong Kong, the provisions of the r cently enacted Iazigranta Control Orüinance, 194), make it clear that complete control would legally be laposed at say tise. On the other hand, as the Attorney-General, Hong Kong, sanounced eben introducing this legislation, persons of Chinese race entering the Colony from Ubias are being exempted frca gea∙ral conpli...nce with the Ordinance. The reason for this exeption is, se I indicated in my letter of the 14th April, the lazene practical difficulty of effectively enforcing control. should the necessity for control of entry of persona of Chinese

Captain Julian Snov, H.P.

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