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you for particulars relevant to the history
of Hong Kong that are available only from
War Office records, though they are not
prepared to grant unrestricted access to the
records within the closed period, many of
which deal with questions of current interest
d/of
and/of a controversial nature.
Permission to
inspect any documents within the closed period
would be subject to your giving an undertaking
to fulfil the following conditions:-
(a)
To submit to the Army Council before
publication any copies or extracts obtained
therefrom; and
(b) Not to communicate to any person,
either verbally or in writing, any information
contained therein that has not been approved
for publication.
7. The Council have asked that the
typescript or the proof of the history may
be submitted to them for examination in order
that they may assure themselves that there is
nothing objectionable, from the War Office
point of view, in what you propose to publish.
I am etc.,