idential.
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG.
May 26th,
1915.
sir,
With reference to Your Excellency's letter of the
11th instant, I have the honour to inform you that I
gathered from the letter from the Foreign Office to the
Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated the 25th
of January last, copy of which is enclosed, that instruc-
tions would be issued to His Majesty's Consular Officers
in China regarding the conditions to be observed prior
to registration at their Consulates of British subjects
Hence my enquiry in my letter of
of Chinese descent.
the 23rd of April.
Should any such instructions be issued in the
future, I shall be much obliged for a copy of them.
I have &c.,
Majesty's Minister.
(Signed) F.H.May.
Governor, &c.,
2.