CO129-542-16 Military contribution 8-2-1933 - 14-12-1933 — Page 7

Orig.

13060/33. Straits

Mily Contor.

G.D. ROSEWAY

ESQ.

Colonial Office,

97

Downing Street, S.W.1.

14th December, 1933.

Dear Roseway,

In your letter to me of the 30th October about

the printing of correspondence relating to Colonial

Military Contributions, you ask me to let you have a

set of the bound Straits correspondence when the volume

is made up. We shall probably be closing the present

at the end of the calendar year

series Eastern 150 -

G

and will let you have a copy in due course when available.

It will contain, of course, the same papers as the loose

proofs we sent you over in August, plus a few subsequent

papers we are having printed shortly.

I find that no Straits correspondence has been

printed between 1912 and the present series (Eastern 150)

which as you say begins in 1928.

If you decide to print

any of the correspondence between 1912 and 1928 we should

be grateful if you would send us copies.

No correspondence relating to the military

contributions of other colonies than Straits appears

to have been printed since 1912. We are at the

moment considering the question of printing recent Hong

Kong and Mauritius papers for inclusion in Eastern 150,

and will let you know further as to this.

If you decide to print any of the correspond ence

relating to the Defence Contributions of any of the

Colonies, it would be a convenience to us if you would

let us have copies.

Perhaps you would let me know if

there would be any objection?

Yours sincerely,

(Sgd.) G.E.J. Gent.