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Tuesday, August 8, 1972

PHILIPPINES THANKS HONG KONG

The Philippine Government has sent a message to the Governor thanking

him for the recent gift of medical supplies sent from Hong Kong for the relief

of flood victims there.

The supplies, 20,000 doses of anti-cholera vaccine and 80,000 tablets

of eryphromycin, an anti-biotic, were flown to Manila in a Royal Hong Kong

Auxiliary Air Force aircraft last Friday. It was the first time that the

Government had used its own plane on an overseas mission.

The message also thanked Sir Murray MacLehose for his telegram

expressing his deepest sympathy, and that of the people of Hong Kong, for the

victims of the flooding.

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