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Government House,
Hongkong, 29th November, 1904.
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Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your
Confidential Despatches of the 5th and 21st September on the
subject of the internment of the crew of the Russian Torpedo
Boat Destroyer "Burni", and the arrangements made for meeting,
and ultimately recovering, the expenditure thereby involved.
I would remind you that the internment is a Military
one carried out by the Military Authorities who can in the first
instance most conveniently defray the necessary charges. It was
accordingly at first intended, as set out in the 7th paragraph
of the Memorandum forwarded in my Despatch No.848 of the 23rd
September that this should be done; that the expenditure should then be recovered monthly by the Military Authorities from
the Colonial Government, and that that Government should ultimately be reimbursed from the Imperial Treasury. On receipt of your
telegram of the 17th September according to which the Colonial
Government were to recover monthly from the Treasury Chest Officer the sums which in accordance with the above arrangement were
paid monthly to the District Paymaster, it appeared simpler for
the local Military Authorities to recover their expenditure directly from the Imperial Treasury, and this is the arrangement
which the Treasury Chest Officer (District Paymaster) is following.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYPELTON, K.C.M.G., M.P.
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