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Mr. Gent,

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Colonial Office.

(From Mr. Sterndale

Bennett)

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Dear

Gent

F.0.

13 January

1941.

With reference to Chungking telegram

No. 8 and Hong Kong telegram No. 23 on the

subject of the Hong Kong Immigration Ordnance,

I enclose a copy of a memorandum which the

Chinese Ambassador recently sent to Cadogan.

M1

1. Dr. Quo also called on Butler on th

Me January to discuss the question. Butler told

Dr. Quo that the projected regulations must

They constituted.

stand. It was a defence measure, not intended

to discriminate against the Chinese or any one

as

else; and the Ambassador must realise the t

the conglomeration of a large number of

persons in a small place such as Hong Kong, at a time of crisis such as the present, was

unwise.

3. The Aurbassader took the decision fairly

wellner propisec to look into a number

but raised

which Butler undertook to have looked into; of points aided by the Ambassader/

firstly,

whether permits of entry could be obtained

at the point of entry into Hong Kong territory

and not only at Hong Kong itself; secondly,

the position

as regards consular visas, *. (replied said that he

segard to which Butler understood that no

Me

passports were required; thirdly,

facilities for distinguished persons entering

Hong Long, such as Madame Chiang, in connexion

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with which/Butler promised the Ambassador

that a special effort would be made to prevent

unpleasant incidents arising; and fourthly,

the case of merchants who would have to go in

and out of Hong Kong plying their wares.

Altogether,

4. M. Butler

NOTHING

O.L

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