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P.Z.2093/39
INDIA OFFICE,
WHITEHAL1, S..1.
21st April, 1939
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dear
Savidge
Would you please refer to Metcalfe's letter
of 10th September 1936, d.o. No. D. 5184-X/36 about
the sending of duplicate copies of correspondence
to Peking (or Shanghai)?
The Foreign Office have recently received a further
complaint from the Shanghai Chancery on this subject.
On looking into the matter we find that in forwarding
copies of correspondence to this Office, the External
Affairs Department have recently been careful to
indicate on the accompanying mail lists the distribution
which they have given to the papers; but that as regards
the marking on the actual copies themselves, it is
apt to be the top copy only, usually the one kept for
our file which has the full distribution marked on it,
while the second or third copies (which are usually the ones passed on to other Offices) are not similarly
ices) ar
marked.
C.A.G.Savidge, Esq., I.C.3
External Affairs Department, Government of India.
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