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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Serial

From or to whom.

No.

Despatch No., &c.

Date.

Subject.

Page.

1904.

1

Admiralty

Confi- dential.

Angust 13

2

Ditto

Confi- dential.

3

Foreign Office

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Confi- dential.

August 16

4

Ditto

Confil- dential.

August 15

August 17

Transmits copy of a telegram from the Commander-in-Chief on the China station reporting the arrival of the crow of the "Burni" at Weihaiwei and proposing to send them to Hong Kong; states that this proposal hus been approved.

Transmits copy of a telegram from the Commander-in-Chief, China, report. ing the shipment of the crew of the "Burni" to Hong Kong, and request- ing instructions as to their internment at that place or elsewhere.

Transmits copy of telegram to Sir C. MacDonald notifying the internment of the crew at Weihaiwei and instruct- ing him to ascertain whether the Japanese Government would agree to their repatriation on the same terms as in the case of the "Varyag."

Transmits copy of a telegram from His Majesty's Minister at Tokió convey- ing the wish of the Japanese Govern- ment that the crew of the "Burni" should be interned until the end of the war; states that the Admiralt have been so informed.

Transmita copy of No. 4; enquires views of the Army Council as to place of internment.

Transmits copy of No. 5; enquires what arrangements should be made for the custody and maintenance of the crew and what instructions should be sent to the Governor of Hong Kong.

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2

2

3

3

4

5

To War Office

Confi- dential.

August 18

6

To Foreign Office...

August 18

7

War Office...

Confi- dential.

August 19

Entertains no objection to the crew

being interned at Hong Kong.

4

8

To Governor Sir M. Telegram

Nathan.

August 19

Requests him to make arrangements for the internment of the crew at Hong Kong.

4

9

Governor Sir M. Telegram (Rec. Aug. 20.)] States that arrangements have already

Nathan.

5

10

To Foreign Office...

11

To Admiralty

Confi- dential.

Confi. dential.

August 20

been made for interning the crew of the "Burni" on the "Tamar" and that the Russian Consul has expressed satisfaction at accommodation.

Transmits copies of Nos. 7, 8 and 9

5

August 20

Ditto

5

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