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PASSPORT CONTROL DEPARTMENT45

FROM WASHINGTON TO FOREIGN OFFICE

Earl of Halifax No.7074

24th October, 1945.

D. 1.50 a.m. 25th October, 1945. R. 7.37 a.m. 25th October, 1945.

Repeated to: San Francisco.

His Majesty's Consul General San Francisco states that Walter Chick, British subject travelling to Hong Kong via Shanghai from Vancouver 26th October to establish office of Bank Line, has been informed by the Canadian

State Depart- Pacific that military permit is required. ment inform me that they are "not interested" in receiving application for military permit in these circumstances. They are contemplating abolition of military permits for China.

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I presume that Chick should be advised to proceed without military permit but wonder whether you wish to exercise any control over return of British subjects to Hong Kong.

3. Chick holds British passport C 42779 issued at

Born London 12th September, San Francisco on 4th May, 1959.

1898.

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