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SIR GEOFFRY NORTHCOTE, K.C.M.G.

(HONG KONG.)

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For the Secretary of State's signature.

Downing Street,

9 No.

Dear Northcote

October, 1939.

An official despatch

about

will reach you by this mail on the

subject of the recommendations of

the Hong Kong University Committee,

but I want to supplement it by

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FURTHER ACTION.

this personal explanation.

Following upon your despatch of the

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(No.2.)

13th of June No.425) and your

personal letters and the discussions

here with Sloss, we made it clear

to the Treasury and the Foreign Office

that we were strongly impressed

by