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Code Cypher

Draft Telegram to:-

HONG KONG

No.

(Date)

And to:-

Repeat to:-

Saving to:-

[Codeword-if any]

Addressed to

telegram ...............

And to

repeated for information to

Saving ............

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.

NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

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HKD

Mr. Wilford

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