CONFIDENTIAL.
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Res 27 CT 17
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 8th. September, 1917.
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Sir,
With reference to my Despatch Confidential
of the lat. June, 1916, I have the honour to enclose fifteen copies of m Order in Council consolidating the various military stores prohibitions. Ten copies are forwarded in accordance with routine instructions. In the other five copies the items in which the Order in Council differs from the consolidating Proclamation issued in the United Kingdom on the 11th. May, 1917, are marked in red, except in one class of cases. Under general instructions all items which are in class (A) in the United Kingdom appear in Hongkong in class (B), and I have not thought it necessary to indicate this in the five copies in question.
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You will observe that provisions still appear in class (C) in the new Order in Council, except in the case of provisions imported directly or indirectly from the United Kingbom. You are aware of course that the position in this Colony as regards provisions is entirely different in two respects from the position in the United Kingdom. In the first place, up to the present the tonnage difficulty has not affect- -ed the importation of provisions. In the second place, with the exception of a little rice grown in the New Territories the Colony produces practically no food suitable for consump→ .
HE RIGHT HONDURABLE
WALTER LONG, M.P.,
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