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« 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

Reference :-

EPL HCC 537

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