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DRAFT. S/O letter.
Your Reference....
For the Secretary of State's Signature
Sir A. Grantham, K.C.M.G.,
Government House,
Hong Kong.
FURTHER ACTION.
You will be receiving by this mail a formal despatch enclosing copies of the
Instructions defining certain aspects of
your relationship with the Commander,
British Forces, Hong Kong, and an advance
copy of the Directive which is being issued
to General Festing in that capacity.
I should like to take this opportunity
not only of expressing to you, on behalf of myself, but Chale of my
colleagues in the Government here, very
great appreciation of your readiness to
fall in with the new arrangements which
are embodied in these documents.
I am quite confident that you will
co-operative find General Festing a most sympatheties
and agreeable colleague who, in the course
of his earlier service in Hong Kong has
already acquired a familiarity with and a
sympathetic appreciation of the position
of Hong Kong and of the interests of the
local population both British and Chinese.
Even though it may be superfluous,
I should also like to take this opportunity
of saying how sympathetically we in London
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