ANNLXURE NO. 4 TO ENCLOSURE.
C.R.C.C. No.S/801. (G).
HEADQUARTERS,
CHINA COMMAND,
HONG KONG.
April 10th 1931.
Your Excellency,
In continuation of my letter of even number dated April 8th 1931, I have the honour to suggest that the information contained therein should not be given in full to the Imperial & International Communications Company Limited. Your Excellency will I think agree that it is most undesirable that any firm should know the actual Line of Defence that would be occupied should the Colony be attacked by any Foreign Power.
I do not know from Your Excellency's letter whether the Company have themselves raised the question of defence or not, but I suggest that if the question of defence is raised by the Company that it should be told that "in the event of attack on the Colony by a First Class Power the defence of a Wireless Station at PINGSHAN could not be guaranteed",
I have etc.
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(SD). J.W. SANDILANDS.
Major-General
Commanding the British Troops in China.
To:-
His Excellency the Governor, &c.,
Government House,
HONG KONG.