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Colonial Office,

Downing Street,

London,S.Ŵ.1.

30th May, 1947.

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LU

You will no doubt, have on record a copy of Young's letter to me of the 15th May enclosing an editorial from the "Hong Kong Telegraph" on the subject of Hong Kong constitutional changes.

We are doing our best to get the terms

of the open reply to Young's despatch settled as quickly as possible so that they may both be published, and I hope that when Young calls to see me I shall be able to tell him that

arrangements have been made for the publication of both documents. (I hardly think there is time for them to have been actually published before then).

Although Young refers in his letter to the Parliamentary announcement of the acceptance of his proposals, which was made on the 5th March,

here is no reference to this announcement in the editorial itself. On the contrary, the editorial conveys a very definite impression that no decision whatsoever has been taken on the Constitutional proposals.

It is difficult to believe that the "Hong Kong Telegraph" was ignorant of the Parliamentary announcement or had forgotten it, and we should

certainly

D.M.MacDougall, Esq.,C.M.G.

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