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NO CONFIDENTIAL.
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Rent 23 UN 151
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 20th. May, 1915.
15953
Sir,
Referring to my Confidential Despatch of the
26th. February, I have the honour to report the further steps that
have been taken in the matter of the restritions placed upon ex-
-ports from this Colony.
I informed you in paragraph 3 of my above
quoted Despatch that a proclamation based on your telegram of the
11th. February had been issued on the 24th. February. I now enclose
a copy of that proclamation, and I also enclose copies of a procla-
-mation as to food-stuffs and a notice as to coal, based on the
same telegram, which were published on the 27th. February.
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On receipt of your telegrams of the 19th, and 31st. March en clair versions of which are endlosed, and of your
Circular Despatch of the 15th. February, a proclamation consolidat- -ing and amending the instructions previously in force was gazetted on the 1st. April. I enclose fifteen copies of this proclamation in
accordance with the instructions in paragraph 4 of the Circular
1y630 Despatch. I informed you in my telegram of the 16th April, copy enclosed, that this proclamation had been issued and that the only special local prohibitions contained in it were in respect of certain Medical stores particularised by the Naval and Military
Authorities.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
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&c.,
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