CO129-531-12 Press request for messages from King and Prime Minister on occasion of their Golden Jubilee... 25-11-1930 - 21-5-1931 — Page 25

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14 JAN 1931

COL OFFICE,

Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary

of State for the Colonies

Dated 14 January. Received 8.50 a.m. 11 January 1931.

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Confidential, No.11 Your telegram of 12th January

No.11 South China Morning Post.

Confidential

I agree with Southorn and advise polite refusal.

The paper is perhaps the best of the local papers but is

scuro: ly important enough and I consider it would be a

bad perceelent to grant request.

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