53838/50/40.
TELEGRAM from the Secretary of State for the Colonies
to the Governor of Hong Kong.
Sent 2 p.m., 23rd February, 1940.
No. 70. Confidential.
Your telegram to Foreign Office No. 2
16th January.
With view to Rogers being kept fully
informed His Majesty's Ambassadors in China and Japan
have been requested by Foreign Office to repeat to you
such telegrams dealing with Tientsin currency and
silver questions as they consider could usefully be
communicated to him. Please arrange for such
telegrams to be shown to Rogers on receipt and also for
him to be shown summary contained in my Saving telegram
Personal of 2nd January.
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