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Government House,
Hongkong, 12th. February, 1917.
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In reply to your lesser Confidential letter of the 10th.
instant, I have the honour to inform you that while I regret you
should have misinformed the Commander-in-Chief on the subject of
the detention of neutral vessels in this port, the mistake would
have been avoided if you had made enquiries of me before answering
Vice-Admiral Grant's general question.
2. The instructions received from the Secretary of State
for the colonies which have resulted in the withholding of clear-
ances from certain neutral steamere in the Port do not call for
the co-operation of His Majesty's Navy, and are of a strictly
confidential nature which I am not at liberty to communicate to
anyone except to the two officers whom I must employ in carrying
out the action imposed on me, namely the Superintendent of Imports
and Exports and in the ultimate resort the Harbour Master.
I have to add that while I am anxious on all proper
000ssions to co-operate with the looal Naval Authorities, I am
unable to accede to your request that all matters relating to
shipping should be communicated to you. It is obvious that in a
great mercantile port like Hongkong there are many matters relat-
ing to shipping which from the subject of correspondence with, and
instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and
which until the co-operation of His Majesty's Navy is involved
are quite unnecessary to communicate, even in war time, to the
Naval Authorities.
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jomodore H. G. G. Sandeman R. N.
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