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Mr..

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Mr. Mayle

Mr.........

Mr..

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Permt. U.S. of S.

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Secretary of State.

Desp. with accpg. note of apology for

delay. 14/7.

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For Mr. Mayle's signature.

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1947.

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

CARFAX HOTEL,

WINCHESTER.

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FURTHER ACTION.

Constitutional changes in Hong Kong.

We promised to let you have a copy

of the Secretary of State's open despatch

to Hong Kong in reply to your despatch

No. 145 of the 22nd October last, and I am

accordingly sending you the enclosed copy

of the Secretary of State's despatch to

Hong Kong No. 222 of the 3rd July, which

tommis

will be leaving by tomorrow's air mail.

We are also telegraphing to MacDougall

explaining that it has been decided that

your despatch No. 145 shall not be altered

or amended in any way prior to its

publication along with the Secretary of

are

State's reply.

reply. We have also asked him to

let us know when he proposes to arrange for

the two despatches to be published in Hong

we can Kong, and have told him that, on receipt

to do tas

of this information, we propose placing

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copies in the Library of the House of

on the same day of

Commons, with a suitable arranged Parliamentary

Question and Answer drawing attention to them,

also In

and

copies available to the Press.