CO129-590-14 Newsletters from Sir Geoffrey Northcote- Governor of Hong Kong 21-4-1941 - 24-11-1941 — Page 20

CONFIDENT IAL

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

21st April, 1941.

My dear Gent,

So much goes by telegram nowadays

and mails are so few and long in transit that

we send fewer despatches than was the case before

the war. I propose, therefore, to write you more

or less monthly a newsletter which will keep you

a little better informed as to how we are getting

I may at times use expressions which I should

not care to have quoted back to me in communications

which must go to my advisers here, so I hope that

these newsletters will not be regarded as always

quotable.

on.

Yours sincerely,

To has horticoli

P.S. I have just and the draft out to be types. You will find it very ragrant, I fear;

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I lost ideas have attained to put them into any order.

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G.E.J. Gent, Esq.,0. B. E., D.S.O., M.C.,

Colonial Office

Downing Street,

LONDON.

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