CONFIDENT IAL
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
21st April, 1941.
My dear Gent,
So much goes by telegram nowadays
and mails are so few and long in transit that
we send fewer despatches than was the case before
the war. I propose, therefore, to write you more
or less monthly a newsletter which will keep you
a little better informed as to how we are getting
I may at times use expressions which I should
not care to have quoted back to me in communications
which must go to my advisers here, so I hope that
these newsletters will not be regarded as always
quotable.
on.
Yours sincerely,
To has horticoli
P.S. I have just and the draft out to be types. You will find it very ragrant, I fear;
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G.E.J. Gent, Esq.,0. B. E., D.S.O., M.C.,
Colonial Office
Downing Street,
LONDON.
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