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Enclosure 5 in Shanghai despatch to Foreign Office No.93
of March 31st 1939.
From the Chancellor in Charge, Czechoslovakian Consulate-General, Shanghai, to H.B.M. Consul-
General, Shanghai.
No.1953/38.
Sir,
November 1st 1938.
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of
your letter of the 25th of October 1938 with
regard to the expenditure incurred by His Britannic
Majesty's Government in connection with the Czechoslovak
nationals evacuated to Hongkong in August 1937, and in
reply beg to state that this Legation has so far received
no answer to the matter from the Czechoslovak Ministry
for Foreign Affairs in Praha.
However I have to-day again written to my
home office for an urgent reply and shall not fail
to let you know as soon as any instructions will
be received.
I have, etc.
(Sa) J. Stepan
Chancellor of Legation
in charge of Consular Section.