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DEPARTMENT OF OVERSEAS TRADE
35, OLD QUEEN STREET VED
LONDON
S.W.I
NATIONAL
SCHEM
ROSABLED
SECRET
27 SEP:939
C.C., Telephone: Whitehall 9040
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BRANCH OFFICES:
9-12, Basinghall Street, E.C.2 Telephone: Metropolitan 4713
70, Victoria Street, S.W.I
Telephone: Victoria 4606
Replies to this communication should be addressed to the Comptroller-General,
quoting
E.18699
Your reference
54017/39
Sir,
26 September, 1939.
I am directed by Mr. R. S. Hudson to refer to your letter of the 21st September and to note that the Secretary of State for the Colonies is prepared to ask the Governor of Hong Kong to make arrangements for advances to His Majesty's Trade Commissioner at Hong Kong as required.
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Mr. Hudson concurs in the proposal that amounts so advanced should be adjusted subsequently by payment by the Department of Overseas Trade to Hong Kong funds with the Crown Agents for the Colonies on receipt of claims from the Governor supported by receipts from the Trade Commissioner and that the Governor should not be required to accept any responsibility for the disbursement by the
Trade Commissioner.
With regard to amounts likely to be required by the Trade Commissioner I am to
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The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
S. W. 1.
state /