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No. 122.

NATAL.

MR. LYTTELTON TO GOVERNOR SIR H. E. McCALLUM.

(General. Confidential.)

Downing Street, March 4, 1905.

SIR,

WITH reference to my cypher telegram of yesterday's date, on the subject of the treatment of certain colliers suspected of being in attendance upon the Russian fleet, I have the honour to transmit, for the information of your Government, copy of a letter from the Foreign Office, relative to the proceedings of the "Ras Dara," "William Storrs," and "St. Ninian."

I have, &c.

ALFRED LYTTELTON.

6658.

69

No. 125.

MR. LYTTELTON TO THE GOVERNORS OF CEYLON, MAURITIUS, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, HONG KONG, AND LABUAN.

(Confidential.)

SIR,

Downing Street, March 10, 1905. WITH reference to my Confidential Circular despatch of the 20th ultimo respecting the application of the Rules relative to the supply of coal, &c., to vessels which have been in attendance upon the Russian fleet, I have the honour to inform you that a report has been received from His Majesty's Consul at Tamatave that a German collier, the," Dacia," belonging to the Hamburg-American line, arrived at that port on the 26th January from Nossibé, where it had supplied coals to the Russian squadron; and that, in a telegram of the 8th February,t the Governor of Natal reported that this vessel, ostensibly bound for the River Plate, had asked at Durban for sufficient water to fill her water-tanks, and had been given 2,000 gallons only, to enable her to proceed as far as Cape Town.

6160.

No. 123.

I have, &c.

ALFRED LYTTELTON.

COLONIAL OFFICE TO FOREIGN OFFICE.

SIR,

Downing Street, March 4, 1905. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to forward to you, to be laid before the Marquess of Lansdowne, a copy of a despatch‡ from the Governor of Hong Kong, reporting the seizure of ammunition carried by the steam-ship "Tung Chan."

2. Copies of the Ordinances§ to which Sir M. Nathan refers are enclosed, and I am to ask that they may be returned to this Department in due course.

7350.

No. 124.

NATAL

I am, &c.

C. P. LUCAS.

7874.

No. 126.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

GOVERNOR SIR J. ANDERSON TO MR. LYTTELTON, (Received March 11, 1905.)

[Copy to Foreign Office, March 15, 1905.-7874 not printed. See No. 128.] [Answered by L. F. transmitting copy of No. 128.]

(No. 57.)

SIR,

Government House, Singapore, I HAVE the honour to forward, for such action as may seem fit to His Majesty's

February 14, 1905. Government, the enclosed copy of a letter from the Editor of the "Straits Times," complaining of certain restrictions imposed on press messages by the Government of Netherlands India.

I have, &c.

JOHN ANDERSON.

J

GOVERNOR SIR H. E. MCCALLUM TO MR. LYTTELTON.

(Received 2.10 P.M., March 7, 1905.)

(Paraphrase.)

TELEGRAM.

[Copy to Foreign Office, March 10, 1905, Confidential, L. F.]

(March 7. No. 1.)

LE

WITH reference to your telegram of the 3rd March No. 1. Necessary guarantee has been given by the steamer William Storrs." This vessel leaves at once for Batavia. Both of the other steamers will sell their cargoes at some South African port and will then return to England.

• No. 120.

↑ No. 119.

‡ No. 111

No. 1 of 1862 and No. 2 of 1900.

| No. 120.

THE EDITOR AND MANAGER OF THE "STRAITS TIMES'

SIR,

Enclosure in No. 126.

to COLONIAL SECRETARY,

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

Singapore, January 10, 1905.

I HAVE the honour to submit herewith a circular issued by the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company in February 1904.

It contains a notification from the Netherlands Indian Government, whereby the despatch of telegraphic messages concerning the movements of Russian and Japanese war-ships or troops is forbidden from certain ports in the Netherlands Indies.

This embargo interferes with the material and financial interests of the "Straits Times," and also those of various other newspapers in the Straits, China, India, Ceylon, England, and the United States, which are represented locally by the "Straits Times"

I have applied to Her Netherlands Majesty's Representative at Singapore in regard to the grievance, and have his assurance that the matter is outside of his jurisdiction.

• No. 105.

† No. 87.

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