CO129-591-13 Military Administration- proposed civil Affairs Agreement with China 20-7-1945 - 11-8-1945 — Page 5

54144/38/45.

OF STCENT

Colonial office,

Downing Street,

3.W.1.

11th August, 1945.

Dear Sterndale Bennett,

Many thanks for your letter of 10th /uurt (F 4858/1147/0) with the draft telegrims to Washington on the matter of Civil Affairs in Hong Kong.

This is just to confirm our conversation this morning that these draïts are now to be regarded as lapsed owing to the new conditions, vis-a-vis Japan.

Yours sincerely,

(Sgd.) G.E.J. GENT.

J.C. Sterndale Bennett, Esq., CMG, MC.