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Personal and Secret.
10
// July, 1938.
Many thanks for your most interesting
despatch of the 11th of June, and your letter of the
8th of June, about the possibility of negotiating
with the Chinese Government for the sale, or for the
extension of the lease, of the New Territories.
I shall lose no time in having the whole
question examined here in consultation with the
Foreign Office and the Service Departments, and I
shall then be able to let you know the decision
reached by His Majesty's Government and the grounds
for it.
Malesim Warsoruld
Sir Geoffry Northcote, K. C. M. G.