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DRAFT. CYPHER OTP.
TELEGRAM
Secretary of State:
CONFIDENTIAL
31 MAR 1947
72 38
Recyphered (OTP) oren!)
17.00 hrs. 30/2/47
Hany
AR
atoma
2873
No. 524
Your confidential despatch of
GOVERNOR
HONG KONG
(16)
15th November.
NOT COPTED
FURTHER ACTION.
Political Adviser.
1. I regret delay in replying but
negotiations with Foreign Office
abouts
regarding secondment of Foreign Service
Officer with experience of China have
been protracted by their staff
difficulties. They have now offered
to release C.B.B. Heathcote-Smith at
present serving in United Nations
Department of Foreign Office. He would
be available in June for period of 3
years. Foreign Office look on him as
intelligent, efficient, and tactful and
are sure he would do well in the post.
Particulars are as follows, born, 1912;
appointed Vice-Consul in China in 1936
and served there until 1945 with
exception of a year in Teheran in 1942;
acted as Consul at Kweilin from 1943-
1945, since when he has been in Foreign
Office.
2.