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00506/N/10. REG 5 FER 13
Dear Fiddian,
FOREIGN OFFICE,
203
February 4th,1919.
We have been in the habit in the past of sending out to China a considerable quantity of newspaper articles, which were used both by our Shanghai Com- mittee and your people at Hong Kong.
This arrangement has now come to an end, as a
consequence of a general retrenchment of propaganda
which we have found necessary; but ir. Coleman, who
has been responsible for the composition of most of
these articles, has put up a scheme by which it might
be possible to continue them on a purely commercial
basis.
To put it shortly, he wishes an offer telegraphed both to Hong Kong and Shanghai for a weekly payment
for such articles and, in the event of favorable re-
plies from these, will make similar arrangements with Yokohama and perhaps Tokyo.
A. Fiddian, Esq.
Colonial office.
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