C.O
20901
REGD
28.
(REG 7 APR 19 TELEGRAM from the Officer Administering the Government
of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies
(ReceivedColonial Office 10.42 a.m., 5th April, 1919.)
Your despatch 1st March Confidential 1918 property has been twice put up for sale at 175,000 and 150,000 dollars
without attracting bid. Suggest that it be now put up
at 75,000 which is at present high rate of exchange
equivalent in sterling of about 115,000 dollars in 1914.
SEVERN.