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P.Z.2093/39

INDIA OFFICE,

WHITEHAL1, S..1.

21st April, 1939

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dear

Savidge

Would you please refer to Metcalfe's letter

of 10th September 1936, d.o. No. D. 5184-X/36 about

the sending of duplicate copies of correspondence

to Peking (or Shanghai)?

The Foreign Office have recently received a further

complaint from the Shanghai Chancery on this subject.

On looking into the matter we find that in forwarding

copies of correspondence to this Office, the External

Affairs Department have recently been careful to

indicate on the accompanying mail lists the distribution

which they have given to the papers; but that as regards

the marking on the actual copies themselves, it is

apt to be the top copy only, usually the one kept for

our file which has the full distribution marked on it,

while the second or third copies (which are usually the ones passed on to other Offices) are not similarly

ices) ar

marked.

C.A.G.Savidge, Esq., I.C.3

External Affairs Department, Government of India.

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