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Judicial Department.
No. 3805 W-1.
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REGE 9 DEC15
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To
sir,
The Hon'ble kr. A. Butterworth, C.S.I., I.C.S.,
Chief Secretary to the Government of Madras.
The Hon'ble the Colonial Secretary,
Hongkong.
Dated Ootacamnd, the 2nd.September, 1915.
I am directed to enclose a copy of a letter, dated
the 24th. August, 1915, received by this Government from one
Reverend G. A. Naumann of Krishnagiri, Salem District, regarding
the Reverend R. H. Freche, a Germanwubject, who would appear to
have been interned at Hongkong from a Dutch steamer when on his
way to America.
2.
Mr. Frech was working as a Missionary in the North
Arcot District of this Presidency, and after the commencement of
the war was allowed to be en parole at his station, being of non-
-military age. In March last the American Consul at Madras applied
to this Gerernment to grant permission to Mr. Freche to leave
India for the United States on furlough on account of his in-
-different health. The Governor in Council after satisfying him-
-self by correspondence with the district authorities concerned that the Missionary's absence from India was desirable in the
interests of his health and after ascertaining from the Military
authorities in India that they had no objection to his being allow -ed to leave this country, secured permission from the Governor- -General in Council for his departure from a port in Southern
India for Hongkong en route for the United States as the Suez Canal route had been closed to hostile aliens by orders received
from the Home Government.
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