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The General Officer Commanding desires me to pass
this on to you to deal with. It is true there is no legisl- ation here, but the Colony is under Military Law and paragraph
III (1) of the Order-in-Council issued with Proclamation No.8 on the 5th August 1914 lays down that every resident in it is under the orders of the Officer Commanding the Troops exactly
This as if he were a follower with an Army in the field. being the case it is perfectly open to the General Officer Commanding to give an order to the Editor or Manager of a
paper that he considers it necessary on Military grounds that
If he his paper should be censored in part or in whole. refuses to obey that order or publishes anything which the General Officer Commanding says should not be published he commits an offence under Sections 9 and 40 of the Army Act.
The gentleman in question has been informed that the
matter has been passed to you.
The position in England is a little different.
Defence of the Realm Act legislates only on certain points, and Military Law has not been proclaimed as it has here.
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Hongkong, 20th January, 1916.
General Staff, China Command.