SOUTH CHINA MORNING FOST LIMITED.
Morning Post Building,
Wyndham Street,
Hong Kong. 9th December, 1930.
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Lieut.Col. Baron Stamfordham, F.C.,G.C.B.,G.C.V.O.
Frivate Secretary to
His Majesty the King, St. James's Palace,
LONDON, S.W. 1.
Sir,
On the 15th June, 1931, "The Hongkong Telegraph",
an evening newspaper published by the South China Morning
Post Company, Limited, under British direction, celebrates
the 50th anniversary of its establishment, and this letter is
written in the hope that we may be able to secure, for publica-
tion in a proposed Special Jubilee Number, a brief message
of congratulation from His Most Gracious Majesty the King,
of whom so many residents of this Crown Colony are loyal
subjects.
During the fifty years of its existence, "The
Hongkong Telegraph" has consistently striven to uphold British
interests and ideals not only in HongKong but throughout the
extensive area in South China in which it circulates. It
has also been a sincere advocate of the cultivation of Anglo-
Chinese friendship, in the belief that closer contact must be
to the mutual benefit of both nations.
His Majesty may also be interested to learn that
during the Great War, "The Hongkong Telegraph" was particularly
concerned in keeping the cause of the Allies to the fore amongst
his Chinese subjects in this Colony, who number almost a million;
that it was able to help in directing the claims of numerous
War Funds to the sympathy of its readers; and that during the
coal