CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4] — Page 84

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Inclosure 2.

To do O P Y.

C.O.

Colonial Secretary

-Office,

Sir,

Hongkong, 6th. March, 1913.

Rece REGY 10 APR 13

I am directed to confirm my telegram of 27th.

February which was to the following effect:-

2.

(see enclosure 1.)

This telegram was based on information supplied to me by His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton who also stated that bonds to the face value of £325,000 had been purchased

in the Straits Settlements.

3.

I enclose for your information copy of the essential portion of a specimen bond in possession of this Government togethet

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with a notice which it became necessary for this Government to issu

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in last December owing to attempts which were being made to sell these bonds in the Colony.

I am etc.,

(Sd.) A. M. Thomson,

Colonial Secretary.

See enclosure 1 in Sir Henry May's Confidential Despatch of 21st. November, 1912.

See enclosure 2 in Sir Henry May's Confidential Despatch of 13th. December, 1912.

The Honourable

The Colonial Secretary,

Singapore.