ONIAL
OFFICE
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35 Downing Street,
115
S.W.1.
11th June, 1945.
54144/12/45.
Dear Mr. Scott,
15 JUN 1945
F
107/10
We should be grateful if you would be kind enough to arrange for a telegram to be sent to Chungking as in the draft appended. It relates to a previous telegram, No. 300 of 18th April, which you sent on our behalf, and to
Sir H. Seymour's telegram in reply No. 404 of 24th April.
Yours sincerely,
23
Fourd
Draft telegram to Embassy, Chungking
"A "Your telegram No. 404.
Colonial Office would be grateful if you could sound Dickinson confidentially whether he is willing to consider an offer of a temporary post in Hong Kong for about 18 months to assist with agricultural rehabilitation on the Colony's liberation. If he is interested it is intended to make him an offer in the near future."
A. L. SCOTT, ESQ.
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