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Code Cypher
Draft Telegram to:-
HONG KONG
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Addressed to
telegram ...............
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repeated for information to
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HONG KONG
...(date),
Personal for Governor from Wilford.
Your letter of 23 September to Laird enclosing
cutting from Hong Kong Standard. I need hardly
tell you that there is no truth whatsoever in the
suggestion, which has also appeared in the Daily
Telegraph here, that John Morgan is to discuss with
the Chinese in Peking the question of your successor.
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