(Cappy) Orig. regd. 5363465. 2
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Telogram from the Officer Administering the Government of
Hong Kong to the Seer-bary of State for the Colenie8
Dated 13th September 1935. Reo ired at 8.32 em.13th Sept.1935.
IMPORTANT
No.223. Regret to inform you that SOUTHHORN admitted to hospital
last night and has been successfully operated on for appendicitis
to day. TRATAN still incapacitated a reported in SOWTHORN ' •
air mail despetoh No.435 of the 27th August.
By virtue of Artiole XVII of the Motton Potent I have no
Acting Colonial Seuratary to day assumed the administonštan
and taken pusscathed outh bater: the ixenstira Comoll in tho
presence of the Chief Justio. SMITH &
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