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Your Reference... 4349/19/49.

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CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT,

NEW SCOTLAND YARD.

LONDON, S.W.I.

30th July, 1949

2/49/398

Confidential.

Sir George Abbise, Colonial Office, The Church House, Great Smith Street, London, "S.W.1.

Deer Abbiss,

I have your letter of the 29th July and -32 it will be quite all right for Coveney to go to Hong Kong.

By the way, since the Oaksey report, 1st Class Detective Inspectors are now called Chief Inspectors, C.I.D. Coveney is one of those.

Yours ever,

Ronald Howe.