CUPY
Enclosure 8. vt
No.
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Prd 4 001 05/
31st. August, 1905.
The honourable
Sir,
i have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of 29th. instant with enclosures and i must express
my sincere regret that Lieutenant A. Skrydioff has written his
letter of 11th. August, 1905.
I cannot agree with the complaints contained
in that letter. The Russian sailors are treated here with kindness
and humanity and they enjoy liberties, which are more than they
could claim strictly to the letter of the Hague Conference.
Especially I feel it to be my duty to declare
that the way in which hussian Sailors have been treated in the
Government Civil Hospital is beyond my praise.
I shall always remember with admiration what
Drs. Atkinson and Bell have done for the severely wounded sailors
of the "Variag".
It may be that some of the men at Kowloon
suffer from anaemia and malaria but i think that it is very much
exaggerated by Lieutenant Skrydioff's letter and that they must
show their character as good sailors by suffering with patience
the effect of this tropical climate which after all is not so bad.
i can only take the liberty to suggest that
His Excellency in reply to Lieutenant Skrydioff's letter will in-
-form him that there is no reason to make any change in the condi-
-tions of the Russian sailors at kowicon.
The Colonial Secretary.
I have, etc., (S.) C. Bologowskoy,
Imperial Russian Consul.