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DEPARTMENTAL No: 2

FROM FOREIGN OFFICE TO LISBON

No: 502

12th July 1945

X:X:X:

D. 5.5.p.m. 13th July 1945

My telegram No: 408.

Following is repetition of Macao telegram No: 133 to

Foreign Office.

Begins.

Your telegram No: 73 now received.

2. On receipt of Lisbon telegram No: 31 I wrote

Governor lacao in the sense authorised. He replied stating he had his Government's orders to co-operate.

3. Am I now to withdraw this despatch ?

Ends.

Please instruct His Majesty's Consul to inform Governor that further local action in this matter is not now considered necessary.

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