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No. SECRET (2).
AIR MAIL.
Sir,
29
5
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
1
31st December, 1937.
With reference to my secret despatch of 15th
November, 1937, requesting the appointment of an Air Raid
Precautionary Officer for Hong Kong I have the honour to
forward for your consideration an application from
Lieutenant-Commander B. M. Douglas, R. N. (Retired), Passive
Defence Officer, His Majesty's Dockyards, Hong Kong and
Singapore, for appointment to this post.
2. As indicated in his application Lieutenant-
Commander Douglas is a member of the Air Raid Precautions
Sub-Committee of the Local Defence Committee and has been
selected to deliver certain of the lectures in the course
of public lectures on air raid precautions now being conducted in the Colony.
3.
Lieutenant-Commander Douglas' application was
submitted to me with the authority of the Commodore, Hong
Kong, and subject to the approval of the Admiralty,
whom the Commodore has communicated by telegraph.
4.
with
Owing to the exigencies of time I am transmitting this application forthwith, in anticipation both of your
approval of the creation of the post in question and of
Their Lordships' approval of the present application.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
W.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,
&C.. &c., &c.