CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 425

DRAFT

19397). Rong

private letter for my sig.

B.F. Alston Esq.

ASC

Dear Alston,

یار

41 July, 1811.

420

select from such papers

to

to

you

So sent, any

which

you

com

Consider

useful for Hongkong. We will

endeavour to send

you any

cancer

Yours truly

those

that Colony.

As Alston

which directly

Mr. Collins

Kr. Fiddes

19/7

Our official letter of the 23rd of

July 1908. and your reply No. 28712 of the

11th of Aug. 1908 dealt with the supply of

prints in the Affairs of China and China

Railways series for the Governor of Hong

Kong. These prints range over at tumense varie-

great

ty of subjects, and Mr. Harcourt thinks

that we need not in future send out to the Gor.

prints which do not directly or indirectly

concern Hong Kong, especially when they deal

with international affairs or diplomatic per-

sonalities; and he would be glad if the F.0.

would make a selection of the prints which

broperly

in their opinion ought to go to H. Kong. Of

A

course you have to read the papers in any case,

whereas to us they are mass of extraneous read-,

A

ing. If you will kindly agree to do this it

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