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M. Seel

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My dear Kloud

•You

GOVERNMENT HOUSE

HONG KONG

67

15th May, 1947.

If you can overlook the barely excusable impoliteness of parts

of the enclosed editorial from this evening's 'Hong Kong Telegraph', I

think it might perhaps find a place in the Colonial Office file on the

subject of the Hong Kong constitutional changes.

The last saving telegram about this matter reached me on the day

on which I had reported that I should be leaving Hong Kong.

But as my

ship has been delayed I have had time to answer it by telegram, and I do

now venture to express the hope that the Secretary of State's decision

on my recommendations of October last may by the time this reaches you

be on its way to Hong Kong, and that I may find by the time I reach

England in June that publication has taken place, both of the decision

and of the recommendations themselves, which are of course only known to

the public here from the very brief outline of them given in Parliament

on 5th March.

Sir Thomas Lloyd, K.C.M.G.,

Colonial Office.

London.

Yours sincrraly

You

hark Trung

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