the internment of refugees belonging to the Russian, Japanese Forces and transmitting other papers relating to the arrangements for the accommodation of the officers of the "Burmah"
2. As regards section 5 of the Ordinance, In Lyttelton is doubtful whether it is advisable that the ordinance should specify the penalties to be inflicted on interned persons for attempting to escape, & that such an offence should be dealt with other than by regulations which the Governor is empowered to make.
He refers to F4, and calls attention to regulations made in Gibraltar in 1871, whereby the maximum punishment for such an offence was imposed by a magistrate. He is inclined to think that, in accordance with the precedent set in the Franco-Prussian War, it would have been better to have put the officers on their word of honour and placed them under military discipline.
3. He would be glad to learn the view of the Marquees of Lansdowne on these points. He presumes that if his Lordship considers it necessary...
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