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9227 COPY OF TELEGRAM.
FROM
Viceroy Finance Dept: to
df20for India.
DATED Simla. 1.11.20. RECEIVED AT INDIA OFFICE 3rd. 4.p..
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lovember, 1918.
Please refer to your telegram dated 14th Henewal of Straits Settlement Upiu Agreement.
Para 2, Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong,
sow requeste renewal of Agrement for further five years from lat January 1921 requirements of 10 chests monthly, and they gres to in 4,000 per chest, we propose to agres and request four approval by telegraph.
Para 3. As there is no sale of Council Alls at present, arrangements for payment reported in our elegram dated 20th June 1917, 958.7.E., is unsuitable. ave no information regarding rate at which payment is made to jou by Colonial Government under present agreement, and would [be glad to know what rate should be suggested to them for the
ature.
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