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Tuesday, August 8, 1972
PHILIPPINES THANKS HONG KONG
The Philippine Government has sent a message to the Governor thanking
him for the recent gift of medical supplies sent from Hong Kong for the relief
of flood victims there.
The supplies, 20,000 doses of anti-cholera vaccine and 80,000 tablets
of eryphromycin, an anti-biotic, were flown to Manila in a Royal Hong Kong
Auxiliary Air Force aircraft last Friday. It was the first time that the
Government had used its own plane on an overseas mission.
The message also thanked Sir Murray MacLehose for his telegram
expressing his deepest sympathy, and that of the people of Hong Kong, for the
victims of the flooding.
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