SECRET.
11/-/5%.
148-15%
DIED
Colonial Secretary's Office.
Đông Phong.
15th December, 1938.
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Dear Gent,
I am sorry to have been so long replying
to your secret letter 53514/38 of 18th October, 1938,
and still more sorry to give you the reason for that
delay, namely the unaccountable disappearance of the
relative file. Every possible department has been
combed without result.
I have duplicates of the Secretary of State's
despatch of 5th March, 1937, addressed to Sir Andrew
Caldecott and of the reply which I myself signed on 13th
September, 1937. These together with your letter now
under acknowledgment are all that we have.
Would you
be so very kind as to let me have copies of any other
despatches that should go into the file which we are now
reconstructing?
I am very sorry about this: in self-defence
I can only say that the papers were not lost in the
Secretariat and that we have a clean receipt dated 18th
February from a department.
G.E.J. GENT, ESQ., O.B.E., D.S.O., M.C.,
COLONIAL OFFICE,
LONDON.
Yours sincerely,
Nhi Sainte