With reference to your letter to Welch the 11th September about the proposed goodwill mission to China, I write to say that we suggested to the President that he should sound Soong on the lines propos

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BRITISH EMBASSY,

CHUNGKING.

20th September, 1945.

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Dear Ogden,

This letter will serve to introduce to you three distinguished

Chinese lawyers, who are about to leave for Shanghai with a

commission from the Executive Yuan to assist and advise the local

authorities there on all questions concerning foreign interests and

Their names are Tsang Tsze-tso(4)

properties in Shanghai.

Yeh Shao-ying (#

and Hsu Sze-hao; (

士浩)

and they have asked for a personal letter of introduction to you.

I have, of course, told His Majesty's Ambassador of their

request and he asks me to ask you to give them your fullest

cooperation in their important task.

Yours ever,

(SGD.) G. A. WALLINGER.

A.G.N. Ogden Esquire, 0.B.E.,

Representative of His Majesty's Embassy,

Shanghai.

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