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I am commanded by the Army Council to
acknowledge the poeipt of the letters from
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your Department 24988/1915 of the 8th June
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and 63840 of the 12th August with regard to evasion of the censorship at Hongkong by Mr. Hakon Schlater.
It appears to the Council that, by section 7, subsection (1) of the Hongkong Post Office Ordinance, 1900, all letters specified under
section 34, subsection (2), (a) to (f), of the
Imperial "Post Office Act, 1908" are exempt from
the exclusive privilege of the Poetmaster General
of Hongkong created by section 6, subsection (2)
of the Ordinance, and that the legality of
despatching such letters will not be affected by
the contemplated amendment of that subsection.
I am to explain that Regulation 24 of the
Defence of the Realm (Consolidation) Regulations,
1914, as amended by the Order in Council of the
23rd March, 1915, was made in order to prevent the
conveyance to or from the United Kingdom, otherwise than through the post of all letters, except those
he Under Secretary of State.
Colonial Office.
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