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19 APR 1939

FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.

(P 913/26/150)

C. O. REAX

18th April, 1939.

!

Dear Devine,

With reference to our recent telephone conversation,

we have received a letter from the Commercial Counsellor

at Shanghai suggesting that there is scope for much

valuable British propaganda work from Hong Kong, and

suggesting that copies of the News Department Articles, of

which you regularly receive two copies, should be

forwarded to the Hong Kong Government for distribution

to the local press. Such distribution was formerly done

by Mr. Pelham, and it is thought that "the old system

"might well be revived, and Mr. Hutchison might continue

"the distribution which Mr. Pelham began". Perhaps you

will kindly go into this matter, and let us know whether

you would like to have more copies of the Articles for

despatch to Hong Kong for distribution to the local press.

Yours sincerely,

Rowland Kenney

A. S. Devine, Esq.