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PARAPHRASE Telegram from the Governor of

Hongkong to the Secretary of State for the

Colonies.

Dated 31st December, 1924.

(Received Colonial Office 6.55 a.m., 31st December, 1924.)

Information has reached me from private sources that absence of acknowledgment of the offer to contribute towards Singapore base has greatly hurt unofficial members. I wish to bring this to

your personal notice as I fear that some of them will ask for withdrawal of the offer if some reply is not received shortly.