CO129-572-7 Application for permission to construct gunboats at Hong Kong for import into China 2-2-1938 - 27-9-1938 — Page 20

In any further communication on

this subject, please quote

No 3520/34/10.

and address,

but to--

not to any person by name,

"The Under-Secretary of State," Foreign Office,

London, S.W. 1.

Immediate.

16.

FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

2nd April, 1938.

18.

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Sir,

With reference to Colonial Office letter No.53885/38

of the 31st March, relative to the construction in Hong

Kong of two river gunboats for the Cantonese Naval Authorities, I am directed by Viscount Halifax to inform you that he concurs in the action suggested in paragraph

2 of that letter.

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant.

Sw. Orde

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