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Mr.

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Mr.

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4.12.45

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REAR ADMIRAL CECIL HARCOURT,

C.B.E.,

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, HONG KONG.

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SECRET AND

PERSONAL.

For the Secretary of State's signature.

Thank you for your Secret and

Personal letter of the 11th November

giving such an encouraging account of

know progress in Hong Kong. I am sure that

we owe much to your courageous decision

to go in so promptly, and before the

ake from ble. Japanese had time to take any aetion.

It is a great tribute too to your

administration that essential services

have been so quickly restored and I am

glad to know that you have found the

Civil Affairs team really useful.

The pressing problem of supplies is

one which we naturally very fully appreciate

here. I am glad to see that, at the time you wrote, the shops were full and that food

had fairer stocks

prices were coming down two points in

You say

which Hong Kong is more fortunate than

most other places in the world.

that trade and commerce must be opened

without delay and since you wrote your

letter, private trading has I think begun

again.

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We welcome this, as I am glad to

will

see you do, and we are sure that it will

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be a help to the supply position.