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INWARD TELEGRAM

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FROM HONG KONG (Sir M. Young)

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IMMEDIATE

No. 375 Confidential,

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Addressed to S. of S.

Repeated to British Consul General, Shanghai, No.066,

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Your No. 263.

F.O. ~petition ash KF

2050 of 24/5 151.

3450

Reference to Washington telegram No, 3023 to the Foreign Office not understood, Text as received here contained no paragraph 2.

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Would II.M. Government consider requesting U.N.R.R.A, to allocate to Hong Kong cotton yarn up to the value of X(U.S.)1,000,000 (repeat 1,000,000). If cotton yarn not available, an allocation of U.N.R.R.A, textiles would seem the only immediate solution to the textile shortage here.

Foreign Office have had telegrams from Shanghai on

30 this subject.

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