Catalogue description Colonial Office: Eastern Original Correspondence

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Details of CO 825
Reference: CO 825
Title: Colonial Office: Eastern Original Correspondence
Description:

These files relate in general to the Far Eastern colonies and to foreign relations in the Far East, with particular reference to Burma, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore. They relate especially to the control of opium trafficking, and mui tsai (child slavery), rubber production and military administration after the Second World War.

Date: 1927-1951
Related material:

For records on post Second World War reconstruction planning for this area see CO 865

For registers of this correspondence see CO 872

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 90 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accruals: Series is accruing.

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