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it is requeged that in any further com-
1 on this subject, the shove Number
« be quoted; and the Letter addressed to
Under Secretary of State for War,
War Office,
Pall Mall, London,
(8.W.)
Confidental
Sir,
WAR OFFICE
196
20 June 1940.
186
I am directed by the Secretary
of State for war to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th
1890, forwarding
16th June,
a letter from the Foreign
Office inclosing a copy of the decipher of a telegram from Her Majesty's Minister at Peking on the subject of the erection of Chinese fortifications in the neighbourhood of Hong Kong.
In reply
I am to state that
Tvr Stanhope, whilst concurring in the answer which Lord Kuutsford proposes to return to the Foreign Office, considers
that it should be
very strongly impressed
upon the Foreign Office that there are
very strong military reasons against the
erection
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Secretary of State
for the Colonies.
PUBLIC RECORD.OFFICE
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EPL HCC 537
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