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Mr. Mayle.
Sir Mark Young's telegram No.82 reads as though his telegram No.84 (the reference to which is odd seeing that it comes later in the series) makes a definite recommendation of M. K. Lo for appointment as one of the two Chinese members of the Executive Council. In fact telegram No.84 makes no such recommendation and I think that there must have been some omission either in its drafting or in its trans- mission. Certainly the Secretary of State ought to know who are proposed as the two Chinese members of the Executive Council before even provisional appointments are made as suggested in the last paragraph of telegram No.84.
When this point has been cleared up and the file comes forward, the papers relating to the recent P.Q. (addressed, I think, to the War Office) about M.K. Lo should be attached.
10.5.46.
Miss Ruston
Please see Mr. Lloyd's minute above. You will no doubt ask the Telegraph Section to find out, as a matter of urgency, whether any groups of telegram No.84 were lost in transmission and if not, send an immediate telegram to the Governor, saying that in his telegram No.84 as received here, there are no names
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