Governor by the Constitutional Instruments.
At
the same time, a Dormant Commission was issued
under which the Commander-in-Chief would supersede
the civil Governor in all his functions if the
Commander-in-Chief considered that circumstances
were such as to make it necessary for him to bring
to an end the civil administration, and himself to
assume all the functions of the Governor. The
Order-in-Council and the Dormant Commission were
never, in fact, used owing to the very happy
collaboration which existed between Sir Henry Moore
and Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton and, subsequently,
Lieutenant-General Wetherall.
As you will see, the new arrangements which
the Minister of Defence has discussed with you
for Hong Kong stop considerably short of what was
done in the case of Ceylon during the war.
Please forgive this very brief note, which I
hope gives you what you want. There w
aetual instructions issued to the Governor of
who had famously bum admoed of the drains Ceylon as far as I can trace.
of the war fatmint
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