THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 4, 1921. 475
No. 460.-The following telegrams which have been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies are published for general information :—
LONDON, 26th October, 1921.
His Majesty the KING has expressed wish that on Armistice Day 11th November, there should be complete suspension of all normal business throughout British Empire during two minutes' silence commencing at 11 a.m.
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My telegram of 26th October Armistice Day. It is proposed that in this country there should be a short Military ceremony at the Cenotaph in which representatives of detachments of the Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force and Ex-service Men's Associa- tion should take part. Representatives of His Majesty and Prime Minister will lay wreaths just before eleven. High Commissioners are being invited to be present and lay wreaths on behalf of their respective Dominions. After two minutes' silence com- mencing at eleven a.m. Hymn "O God our help in ages past" will be sung accompanied by massed bands. Upon its conclusion reveille will be sounded by buglers and ceremony will be completed.
His Excellency the Governor trusts that on a signal being given by the firing of a gun on Murray Parade Ground at eleven o'clock all normal business will be suspended in the Colony and two minutes silence observed by the community.
No. 461.-With reference to Government Notification No. 100 published in the Gazette of the 18th March, 1921, the following further notes which have been exchanged with the Esthonian Government are published for general information.
4th November, 1921.
BALTIC STATES AND FINLAND.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[N_5070/604/59]
No. 1.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary,
April 27.
SECTION 1.
M. Piip (Esthonian Ministry for Foreign Affairs) to Earl Curzon.--(Received
My Lord,
April 27.)
Tallinn, April 25, 1921.
It being the desire of our respective Governments to place on record that the notes exchanged on the 20th July, 1920, were not intended in any way to override any inter- national conventions by which either party might be bound, I have the honour to inform you that the Esthonian Government do not regard the exchange of notes above mentioned as conferring any right or imposing any obligation which might conflict with any general international convention to which either the Esthonian Government or His Majesty's Government is or hereafter may be a party.
I have, &c.,
ANT. PIIP.