CONFIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
Government House, Hongkong, 8th May, 1909.
I have the honour to acknowledge your Confidential Despatch of March 25th, having reference to the Regulations for the landing of Foreign Soldiers and Sailors.
2. I did not fail to note that in the revised copy of Colonial Defence Committee's Paper No. 365-M dated March 24th, the words "through the Consul or Officer of the Country to which such Soldiers or Sailors belong" had been deleted, and they are in consequence omitted in the second regulation which alone deals with the subject of that Memorandum, viz.:- the use of British Ports abroad by Foreign Ships of War.
3. Regulation 3, to which Your Lordship draws my attention, does not refer to landing in British Ports but to landing outside harbour limits. Though the landing of Foreign Sailors elsewhere in the Colony
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