DRAFT
19397). Rong
private letter for my sig.
B.F. Alston Esq.
ASC
Dear Alston,
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41 July, 1811.
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select from such papers
to
to
you
So sent, any
which
you
com
Consider
useful for Hongkong. We will
endeavour to send
you any
cancer
Yours truly
those
that Colony.
As Alston
which directly
Mr. Collins
Kr. Fiddes
19/7
Our official letter of the 23rd of
July 1908. and your reply No. 28712 of the
11th of Aug. 1908 dealt with the supply of
prints in the Affairs of China and China
Railways series for the Governor of Hong
Kong. These prints range over at tumense varie-
great
ty of subjects, and Mr. Harcourt thinks
that we need not in future send out to the Gor.
prints which do not directly or indirectly
concern Hong Kong, especially when they deal
with international affairs or diplomatic per-
sonalities; and he would be glad if the F.0.
would make a selection of the prints which
broperly
in their opinion ought to go to H. Kong. Of
A
course you have to read the papers in any case,
whereas to us they are mass of extraneous read-,
A
ing. If you will kindly agree to do this it
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