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FONG KONG.
Enclosure 4 in No. 68.
LIST OF TURKISH SUBJECTS IN HONG KONG.
SIR,
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Confidential.)
(Received 11th Decembar, 1914.)
Government House, Hong Kong, 5th November, 1914. I HAVE the honour to transmit the enclosed paraphrase and translation of cipher and code telegrams received from you on the subject of the rupture of diplomatic relations with the Turkish Empire.
2. As far as I can judge there is no feeling of sympathy with Turkey among the Mohammedan civil population in the Colony. I have given Mr. Arculli, a Mohammedan Justice of the Peace, permission, at his own suggestion, to read a translation he will make himself of your telegrams concerning the attitude and conduct of the Turkish Government in the Mohammedan mosque.
I have, &c.,
J. H. Solomon
D. Levi...
8. P. Levi
8. Michael
62009/S
No. 68.
F. H. MAY,
Governor.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Confidential)
(Received 28th December, 1914.)
[Answered by No. 73.]
SIB,
Government House, Hong Kong, 19th November, 1914. IN continuation of my Confidential despatch of the 5th November,† I have the honour to transmit the enclosed paraphrases and translations of cipher and code telegrams,* received from you and despatched by me on the subject of the Anglo-Turkish war.
2. On receipt of your cipher and code telegrams of the 5th instant, I issued a Proclamation, enclosure 2, and a notification, enclosure 3, extending to the Anglo-Turkish war all the Proclamations previously issued relative to the Anglo- German war, altered in accordance with your directions.
3. The Turkish Empire possesses no consular representative here, nor does any Turkish shipping frequent the port. I enclose a list of the names, birthplaces, and occupations of the Turkish subjects domiciled in the Colony; none of them, so far as I am aware, are reservists or liable for service in the Ottoman Army. As they are, with two or three exceptions, of Jewish race, born in Bagdad, and entirely British in sympathies. I have, with the concurrence of the General Officer Com- manding, pending definite instructions from you, refrained from taking any further action against them than requiring them to sign a parole and to report weekly to the Provost Marshal.
I have, de..
* Not printed.
+ No. 67. : Not reprinted.
F. H. MAY,
Governor.
Name.
Birthplace.
Occupation.
Remacks.
Mahomed Pasha Hamal Bila Simon Lowy
Turkey
Unknown
Bagdad
Assistant, E. D. Sassoon Five
Ex-Admiral Turkish Fleet
children born
in
& Company
Hong Kong
Constantine Dedeogiou
Turkey
Tobacco Marchant
Constantine Huastasidia
Italy
do.
J. 8. Levi
Bagdad
Assistant, B. J. David &
Company
Bagdad
Hotel Runner
Bagdad
Assistant, Komor & Komor
Bagdad
Nil. (Old age)
Five
Bagdad
Broker
J. Isaac
Bagdad
Nil. (Old age)
Five
J. Elias and wife
Bagdad
Priest
J. Elias, Jun., and wife
Bagdad
do.
Mr. Esekiel and wife
Bagdad
Unknown
okildren born Hong Kong
children born in
Hong Kong
Visitors from Shanghai
in
Mones Silas Bassoon
Bagdad Merchant
H. Levi and wife
Bagdad Unknown
Ezekiel Gubbay
J. Judah
Bagdad
do.
Bagdad
Assistant, D. Sassoon
Joseph Gould
Bagdad
Broker
Company
4
Mr. Gorje
Bagdad
Unknown
Mr. Oudish
Bagdad Ni
Edward Mennshih
Bagdad
Broker
Raymond M. Joseph
Bagdad
Amistant, D. Boon
Isaac 8. Perry
Bagdad
Company
do.
Solomon David Bommekh
Bagdad
Sassoon Aboody
Bagdad
do.
do.
Kelly Sayoo and wife
Bagdad
Tobacconist
David Haskell
...
Bagdad
Broker
62035/S
No. 69.
(Secret.)
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 28th December, 1914.)
Sra,
Government House, Hong Kong, 19th November, 1914. IN continuation of my Secret despatch of the 5th November,* I have the horour to transmit the enclosed paraphrases and translations of cipher and code The instructions, and telegramat exchanged with you on the subject of the war. information conveyed in your telegrams have been communicated to the persons con- cerned. I make the following references in particular cases.
2. The instructions conveyed in your code telegrams of the 4th November were embodied in a Notification published on the 11th November, a copy of which is attached.‡
3. With reference to your cipher telegram of the 7th November, I tele- graphed to you to-day that the naval authorities have decided to ship the arma- ment by the 8.8. Fooksang," sailing on the 28th instant to Calcutta and connect- The presence until ing with the Natal line of steamers from India to Durban. recently of hostile cruisers in southern waters, and the number of steamers requisi- tioned for transport work, has rendered the steamer service to India somewhat infrequent.
4. I have communicated the text of your code telegram of the 11th instant to the General Officer Commanding, who has invited applications, both locally and in the Treaty Ports of China, for temporary commissions in the Army. report the result in due course.
I shall
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