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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
HONGKONG,
85
1919.
20th. February,
The Colonial Secretary presents his compli-
-ments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, and
in accordance with instructions from His Excellency the
Officer Administering the Government requests that the words
"owing to the state of his health" may be deleted from the first paragraph of Mr. Severn's Despatch No. 17 of the 15th. January, 1919, as Mr. Kemp is going on leave in the ordinary
course of events.
Under Secretary of State for the Colonies,
LONDON.