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Government House,
BY SAFE HAND.
Hong Long.
Secretary of State for the Colonies. B.I. Sharbat took 10)
8.E. Tokyo (No. 13)
10.
i do Changking (Ho, %6)
18th April, 1941.
sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter No. 40, with exeloaures, dated 12th
April, 1941, recording the developments in the
negotiations conducted by you in the matter of the
re-opening of the Pearl River.
2. I venture to express my congratulations on
the successful issue of those negotiations the importance
of which to this Colony hardly requires statement.
3.
A copy of this letter in being went to the
Secretary of State for the Colonies and to His Majesty's
Labassies at Chungking, Changhai and Tokyo.
Your meat obedient servant,
G. A. S. NORTHOTE
Governor.
His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General,
CARTOR.