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DRAFT AND RECORD COPY

REGISTERED No.

Colonial Office,

Downing Street,

DATE

LETTER SENT

54145/4/47

DRAFT

MR. Galsworthy

MR.

MR.

To

Dear Sir ark,

22nd July, 1947.

ENCLOSURES

FURTHER ACTION

You will be glad to now that arrangements have now been made for your despatch No.145 of the 22nd October last and Mr. Creech Jones' despatch to Hong Kong No.222 of the 3rd July to be published in Hong Kọng on the morning of Thursday, 24th July. Copies are being placed in the Library of the House of Commons to-morrow afternoon, and an Pusa

dayy the Secretary of State is being asked in the House by Mr. Rees-7illiams what is the present position with regard to the proposed Constitution- al changes in Hong Kong. To this Mr. Creech Jones will reply in the following terms:-

"I informed the House on Karch the 5th of ny general agreement with the recommendations of the late Governor, Sir Mark Young, for the establishment of a Hunicipal Council and a modification in the constitution of the Legislative Council. Earlier this month I sent to the Acting Governor of Hong Kong a despatch containing my detailed comments on those recommendations, and authorised him to proceed at once with all preparations necessary to put them into effect. I have arranged for copies of the despatches in question to be placed in the Library of the House.

SIR MARK YOUNG, G.C.M.G.

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