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53838/24/39. Confidential.

20 February, 1939

sir,

I am directed by Mr. Secretary MacDonald to

acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 984/42/10

of the 14th of February and to request you to inform

Viscount Halifax that he concurs in the terms of the

telegram which it is proposed to send to His Majesty's

Ambassador at Shanghai on the subject of the possible

re opening of the Canton-Kowloon Railway. I am to

request that any instructions that may be issued to

His Majesty's Consul-General Canton may be repeated to

the Governor of Hong Kong.

I an,

Sir,

Your most obedient servant,

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

(Signed) H. R. CO'WELL