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Sir,
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 27th. February, 1917.
In continuation of my confidential Despatch of
the 6th. instant and with reference to the telegraphic correspond-
Secretary of State 2nd. February, 1917. (Cypher). Goremor 7th.February, 1917. (Code).
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2.
-ence noted in the margin, I have the honour to
transmit the enclosed copies of the commission
which I have appointed in the circumstances
explained in the correspondence under reference.
You will notice that the terms of reference do
not exclude Civil Servants from the purview of the Commission. I
have allowed Civil Servants whose applications to offer their services with His Majesty's Armies have been refused, to go before the Commission because I did not wish to deprive them of the
opportunity of having their cases reviewed.
3.
The Commission has had the effect of inducing some who had not volunteered for active service beyond the Colony
to now offer their services. But it remains to be seen how far
employers will adopt its recommendations, if endorsed by the
Governor, in cases in which the Commission find that men should be
spared whom employers hold that they cannot spare.
It would be far more satisfactory both for
applicats and for employers, who have their responsibility to their constituents and principals to consider, if the same measure
of compulsion adopted in England were applied here, provided that
the
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
WALTER LONG, M.P.
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