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SECRET
AIR HAIL
Copy to Tokyo.
0:13
Copy & dend. to {BBIT 5)
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
30th September, 1937.
Sir,
I have the honour to forward for
your consideration the accompanying copy of a letter from liessrs. Jardine Matheson and Company
Limited on the subject of the proposed acquisition by the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company of four steamships, and to request that I may receive instructions in due course as to the reply which should be returned to
the Company.
I have the honour to be,
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble servant,
N.L. Smit
Officer Administering the Government.
W.G.A.ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., K.P.,
&C.,
&C.,
&c.
.
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