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→BER AND DATE SHOULD QUOTED IN REFERENCE

TO THIS LETTER

TELEGRAPHIC ADORESS

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OFFICE

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,

HONGKONG,

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1919.

20th. February,

The Colonial Secretary presents his compli-

-ments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, and

in accordance with instructions from His Excellency the

Officer Administering the Government requests that the words

"owing to the state of his health" may be deleted from the first paragraph of Mr. Severn's Despatch No. 17 of the 15th. January, 1919, as Mr. Kemp is going on leave in the ordinary

course of events.

Under Secretary of State for the Colonies,

LONDON.