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Dear Sir,
Conservative Club,
St. James' Street, London, S.W.
12th December, 1916.
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We have to report the result of our endeavours
in the matter originally confided to us by your letter of
the 8th May and your telegram of the 15th June.
Our commission was to negotiate the details of
an agreement which had been come to between the Hongkong
War Charities Committee and the War Office through the
Colonial office.
When we received your telegram of the 15th June,
our information regarding the terms of this Agreement was
confined to that contained in your letter of the 8th May.
With that letter you enclosed copies of telegrams which had
been exchanged up to then and from these we saw that when
your Committee first approached the War office, through
the Colonial Office, they were advised to offer a contribu-
tion to the Royal Flying Corps Hospital.
Your Committee
The Honorary Secretary,
Hongkong War Charities Committee,
HONGKONG.
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