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SECRET.

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DIED

Colonial Secretary's Office.

Đông Phong.

15th December, 1938.

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Dear Gent,

I am sorry to have been so long replying

to your secret letter 53514/38 of 18th October, 1938,

and still more sorry to give you the reason for that

delay, namely the unaccountable disappearance of the

relative file. Every possible department has been

combed without result.

I have duplicates of the Secretary of State's

despatch of 5th March, 1937, addressed to Sir Andrew

Caldecott and of the reply which I myself signed on 13th

September, 1937. These together with your letter now

under acknowledgment are all that we have.

Would you

be so very kind as to let me have copies of any other

despatches that should go into the file which we are now

reconstructing?

I am very sorry about this: in self-defence

I can only say that the papers were not lost in the

Secretariat and that we have a clean receipt dated 18th

February from a department.

G.E.J. GENT, ESQ., O.B.E., D.S.O., M.C.,

COLONIAL OFFICE,

LONDON.

Yours sincerely,

Nhi Sainte