As regards the last paragraph of the Gov's Despatch Mr Lethbridge is at present applying for some post in England.
but we might in the first instance write to the Home Office & say that it is proposed to introduce
into the Victoria Gaol at Hong Kong the treadmill
and enquire whether it would be possible to afford
facilities for studying the uses
to which it is put
by some officer of the Home Office Prisons department in England to
When we hear from
there
we should write to
Mr Lethbridge.
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Government House, Hong Kong 13th April, 1897.
meanwhile acknowledge this Despatch inform
you
what we
are
doing
P.CM 15.5-97.
Ach: to say that we are communicating
with Mr Lethbridge Write to M Lethbridge who is
somewhere at Southsea tell him what
the government wants re
that, if it be necessary, the Home Office will be formally
asked to give facilities for obtaining the information
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have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your despatch
M. 254 of the 25th November and to
transmit copies of the Rules and
Regulations for the Prison as finally
amended).
The Right Honourable,
Joseph Chamberlains, M.P.