Evangelical Missionary Society
Basel
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REC' 9 AUG 20
the Rev. L. J. Frohnmeyer, D.D., Secretary
Basel Missionary Society,
Basel
To
His Excellency
the Secretary of State to the Colonies,
Colonial Office,
London.
Your Excellency,
The Basel Missionary Society would like to send out to China in autumn of this year, between September and December, a number of missionary people, who for reach- ing their different stations in China will have to land at Hongkong.
On taking passage for them the office of the
Lloyd Triestino" called our attention to a Government Order
according to which Germans or Austrians shall not be per- mitted to land at a British port unless they can produce a special permission of the Colonial Secretary in London, We have been informed besides, that without such a permission
the transit-visa of the British and Chinese Consulates here
would be recognized at Hongkong and hence our people could
not
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