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Colonial office
Downing Street,
S.W.1.
24th December, 1945.
my dear
Man Dongill.
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Thank you for your most interesting letter dated 5th December. We have followed closely the difficulties and achievements of the Administration, as reported to us in your own telegrams and reports and by returned travellers and others. I would like to congratulate you personally on the remarkable progress that has been made, particularly in view of the way in which you have been handicapped by reason of shortage of staff.
On this question of staff I may say that in association with the War Office we have spared no efforts to secure for you additional personnel and I am glad to see from a statement that has recently been drawn up by the H.K.C.A. at Grosvenor Street that the position is improving.
On the question of police we are pressing for the immediate despatch of the fifty inspectors recruited in this country and in addition I am asking that the Chiefs of Staff should consider retaining in Hong Kong as a temporary measure the Naval ratings who are at present employed on police duties until the Hong Kong Police Force is better able to stand on its own feet.
Your anticipation of labour trouble is disturbing, and we shall expect to hear more of this from Hazelrigg.
I note your advice about Municipal Government. We shall press on with the ideas on that subject.
Brigadier D.M.MacDougall.
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