Copy.
Enclosure No. 3.
To His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester, Earl
of Ulster and Baron Culloden, K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O.
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May it please Your Royal Highness.
The subjects in Hong Kong of His Majesty the King
offer Your Royal Highness a most cordial and loyal
welcome.
We desire to record our heartfelt gratitude for Your Royal Father's recovery. All sections of our community watched with breathless interest the daily struggle of that long and painful illness and were lost in admiration of His courage and patience.
The high mission on which Your Royal Highness is now proceeding is of special interest to this Colony having regard not only to its geographical position but also to the very friendly relations which exist between this Colony and Japan. It is particularly gratifying to know that Your Royal Highness is proceeding to Japan for the purpose of conveying to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese people a token of the high esteem and friendship which exist and which will, we hope, continue to exist between the British and
Japanese nations.
During the past few years the Colony of Hong Kong has had to face unprecedented political and financial difficulties but we are glad to be able to tell Your
Royal Highness that these difficulties are now things of the past. We hope that the friendly relations today existing between this Colony and the Chinese people are
settled