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2.

Downing Street, S.V.1.

29th January, 1946.

Dear Smith,

New Territories,

Hong Kong.

This is no more than

an acknowledgment of your minute of today's date on the above subject. The detailed information given in your note, which I am passing on to, Mayle's Department for consideration, should be most useful to us in the contingency which you envisage.

Yours sincerely,

(Sgd.) T.I.K. LLOYD.

N.L. SMITH, ESQ., C.M.G.