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very a Hong Kong Chivil Affairs) relegram

on ther in;

regarding

the return

to the Colony

9

that only essential

were wandied back al' present

Cherise

personnel

I think this despatch is worth promiting

F.E (China) a), with the mininte but without

the ndies.

Adimi

propused, then re-submit

lux

7/11.

John Keswick's

Keswick's suppesinin for a Chura

Consul for Stay Kang

has care

yan cher

papers which I cannot" for the moment drace,

The idea is not entirely new. m2 Pelham

m2 Htwichesin, members

Diplomatic Settece

4

the Commercial

Settle in China, were of clined.

in

successively

in

H.K.

Commercial Secretaries a

Trade Commissioners. Their afferent went was not

a

"Great"

омецо

they

had

по ре

no proper statins

- then very rigid.

in' the Colonial hierarchy

idea is to have a China Carond

The present idea is to have a

appointed to H.K. as

Secretary for External

in relations

appairs, to advise the beverned

with Churia ral' the same time to report to

the Ambassader am

midierests in China,

pressions affecting British

This is all bound up with the pesiimmy

the futive

we status & administration of Amy Kay,

which I have in mind to unite a memorandum

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when a reta

time. We

obrinoly cannot

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