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(8/37/1939)

Copies sent to:-

External Affairs Dept.,

New Delhi, No. 6 Consulate-General,

Kashgar, No. 2

Dear Department

BRITISH EMBASSY,

SHANGHAI,

16th February, 1939.

F 2914

24 MAR 1939

In a number of cases recently we have

received, via the India Office and yourselves, copies

of documents which had already reached us direct from

New Delhi or Kashgar.

Examples are your despatch No.

34 (F 13689/139/10) forwarding Kashgar despatch No.

F.152-C.R./38 of November 3rd about the Mir-Munshi,

which we had previously received under cover of

External Affairs Department's letter No. 64-Ch. of

December 14th; your despatch No. 883 (F 12768/44/10)

of December 14th, copying one of our own telegrams and

a letter from Gangtok (No.13(1)-P/38) about Tibetan

internal affairs which we had already had from New

Delhi in their letter No. 60-Ch. of November 19th;

your despatch No.23 (F 13901/44/10) of January 4th,

copying another letter from Gangtok on the same

The Far Eastern Department,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

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