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Telephone No.: WHITEHALL 1234.
please quote Regd. No.
In any reply
TREASURY CHAMBERS,
WHITEHALL, S.W.1.
20th November, 1939.
Dear Gent,
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Your letter (54020/39) of the 7th November, 1939,
addressed to Compton has been passed to me. Sir Robert Ho
Tung's offer is one of a number, on similar lines, which have
been made to the Government in recent months and gratefully
accepted.
The usual procedure in these cases has been for
the Chancellor of the Exchequer to send a letter of thanks
and for a formal Treasury Certificate, entitling the lender
2am to the repayment of his loan on the due date, to be sent to in formy we the latter way infact
him shortly afterwards.
717M 2/4/40
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Would you therefore be so good as to forward the
enclosed letter from the Chancellor's Private Secretary to
Sir Robert Ho Tung. Meanwhile I suggest that a telegram
might be sent to the Governor of the colony requesting him
to inform Sir Robert that His Majesty's Government have
gratefully accepted his offer and that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer has written to express his thanks.
The Governor
might also be told that the £10,000 might be paid to him in
the first instance and brought to account by him with a view
to subsequent transfer by the Colonial Office to the Treasury,
and
G.E.J. Gent, Esq., D.S.O., 0.B.E., M.C.,
Colonial Office.