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FOREIGN OFFIOR,
8.1.1.
5th September, 1925.
sir,
I am directed by Hr.Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter So.34822/25 of the 1st instant regarding the removal of the office of the Chinese Telegraph Administration in Hongkong, and to inform you that he conours in the suggestion that the Governor of Hongkong should be invited to discuss the whole question on his return to this country towards the end of the year.
2.
Meanwhile, it is presumed that instructions have been or will be sent to Sir R.3.Stubba to refrain from taking any steps in the matter pending the proposed discussion.
The Under-Beeretary of State,
Colonial office.
sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(8d.) LAURENCE COLLIER