CO129-580-4 Proposed aircraft factories in Hong Kong 21-12-1938 - 2-1-1940 — Page 32

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NOLARN 14K

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Auy communications on the subject of this letter should

be addressed to :-

THE UNDER SECRETARY

OF STATE,

and the following number quoted :-

944912/39/C.0.1.

Sir,

32 49.

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DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AVIATION,

DESPATCHED

AIR MINISTRY,

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

25, Julian Road, Stoke Bishop,

Bristol, 9.

23-661 1939

R.

21st October

Initials

1939.

I am directed by the Secretary of State for Air to refer to colonial Office letter of the 30th August, No. 53846/39 forwarding a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong concerning an application by an American firm, the Inter-Continent Corporation, for permission to operate an air service between Hong Kong and Loiwing.

2.

In reply I am to request you to inform the Secretary of State for the Colonies that the proposed service would appear to Sir Kingsley Wood to be in the nature of a private service for the Company's domestic requirements and he sees no reason to dissent from the views of Lord Halifax as indicated in Foreign Office letter to the Colonial Office of the 7th September, No. 9709/118/10.

3. A copy of this letter is being sent to the Foreign Office.

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

Whitehall,

S.W.1.

ATIONAL

SCHEME

DISABLED

I al., Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Womildred