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Mr. Monson
12/39 T.S. 695 2/40 T.S. 695
29/6/40
Mr. Grant zej
Mr.
Sir A. Burns. Ausen 29
Mr. G. L. M. Clauson.
Mr. C. J. Jeffries.
Mr. A. J. Dawe.
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Permt. U.S. of
Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State.
DRAFT.
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53614/40.
For Mr. Eastwood's signature.
Onset 10
THE RT.PON.SIR ALEXANDER HARDINGE,
G.C.V.O., K.C.B., M.C.
Donment Communs in
jogo
ber
th
FURTHER ACTION.
9
June, 1940.
Deep Sir Alexander Herdinge,
I enclose for submission to
Pis Majesty for signature dormant
commission to provide for Major-General
E. F. Norton, C.B., D.S.0., M.C., who is
at present commanding the "estern
District in India, to take over the allumitration
Government of Hong Kong in the Governor's
absence at the earliest possible date.
The Governor of Hong Kong,
Sir Geoffry Northcote, had to leave in
the middle of May to take a period of
rest and holiday at home on the urgent
advice of his doctors. He has not vet
IS
arrived here, but may be expected in a b
from now
a week or two now: The Acting Governor at
present is the next man in the Civil
Administration of the Colony, Mr. N.L.
Smith, the Colonial Secretary, who has
spent his working life in the Civil
Service in Hong Kong and has much
valuable experience of local
administrative affairs.
But the Colony is facing a
defence situation of some gravity and it
has
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