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DRAFT AND RECORD COPY

REGISTERED No.

Colonial office,

Downing Street,

LETTER SENT

DATE

54345/4/47

SECRET BY HAND

19th May, 1947.

MR. Galsworthy

MR.

MR.

ENCLOSURES

1. Copy of tel.No.817 2. Dup. of letter to

be signed and returned.

FURTHER ACTION

Dear Sir Alexander,

I am sending you the enclosed copy of the telegram we have received from 8ir Mark Young in reply to our Secret Savingram Ro.32 of the 29th April, of which you have already had a copy, on the subject of constitutional change. apologise for the fact that a copy of

I must

3ir Mark Young's telegram No.817 was not sent to you before. If you have any comments on this telegram, we should be very grateful to have them.

I also take this opportunity of saying that we have now received a telegram from MacDougall, informing us that he assumed the Administration of the Colony on the date of Sir Mark Young's departure, namely the 17th bay. I am accordingly arranging for the despatch of your two personal telegrams to MacDougall about the A.D.C. and Private Secretary, and the Huraber Pullman car.

I wonder if I may trouble you to sign and return to me the enclosed duplicate copy of this letter, as an indication of the safe arrival of the Sceret telegram from Hong Kong.

Yours sincerely,

ĐIA ALEXANDED CRANTHAN K.C.4.0.

(A.N. Galsworthy)

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