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Code telegram to Mr. George (Shanghai).
Foreign Office.
No. 47. (R)
IMPORTANT.
19th August, 1940.
11.40 p.m.
CUEIVED
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JOSEP 1940 O REGY
Private
Your despatch No. 161 [of June 28th
David Eckford].
I agree that Eckford should be sent to United Kingdom to serve his sentence.
If there is still time you should arrange for him to be taken by the troops to Singapore whence the remainder of the journey can be arranged in due course.
Repeated to Singapore No. 844.
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