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M. I.

Colonel Office ́Reference No.

54064/41

With the compliments of the US. of §.

the

Date / 10

Reference

* Jan., 1941

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Colonial Ofbis-

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CYPHER TELEGRAM

FROM

0. A. G.

D. 9th January, 1941. R. 9th

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tt

15.25 hrs.

HONG KONG

IMMEDIATE

No. 23.

S.J. Banan

•Treaty Tipt

Addressed to Chungking No. 3 repeated to

S. of S. for the Colonies No. 23 Shanghai No. 6.

F98

Your telegram No. 8 to Foreign Office.

Second paragraph.

This of course re-states practice of universal

(1) application.

(2) I have no objection to imposition of auch demands on British subjects entering China or, even preferably, waiving of visa requirements on Chinese passports as suggested in your 3rd paragraph.

(3) Maximum would be imposed only in cases of exceptional suspicion; normal demand will be only 25 to 100 dollars according to class of travel.

(4) That the fee is readily paid is proved by the great flood of applicants; rates are subject to revision; chief object of the fee is to make the organization self-supporting.

(5) Entrants may come at own risk and give cash guarantee on arrival; no hardship is seen in the cases mentioned.

see 623

(6) This would be true in normal times but the FU410/"2 defence aspect of the legislation has been indicated in

the last paragraph of my telegram No. 170 (7751) of 22nd November to S. of S. for Colonies.

para. 4 5193/24

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Proclamation issued yesterday brings ordinance into effect on 15th January. As already reported measure has fullest approval of Chinese population Hong Kong

of

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