CO129-590-14 Newsletters from Sir Geoffrey Northcote- Governor of Hong Kong 21-4-1941 - 24-11-1941 — Page 5

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

24th November, 1941.

My dear Gant

(5)

Thank you for your letter of the

23rd September.

I have now seen Northcote's (1)

letters of the 21st and 22nd April and I will

certainly write to you demi-officially when

there are matters which I want to put to you

'off the record'. I won't make a definite

promise of a monthly newsletter, for fear that

I might not fulfil it any better than Northcote

did.

Our relations with the Chungking

Government - which means pretty much the same

thing as our relations with Clark Kerr are

very good at present. When he stayed with me

last month he found to his surprise and my

satisfaction that the Cadet Officers here

North and others whom he has for some time

been regarding as antediluvian and hopelessly

unsympathetic in their outlook on China appeared

to have reformed since he last talked with them;

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