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Sir,
HONGKONG.
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
25th August, 1914.
37775/5.
In continuation of my secret despatch of the 12th
instant on the subject of the Anglo-German war, I have the
honour to transmit the enclosed paraphrases of the cypher tele-
grams received from you and addressed to you by me on the subject of the war with Austro-Hungary which has now ensued.
2.
Your telegram of the 13th instant announcing the declaration of war with Austro-Hungary was received by me on the same day, and the Proclamation, Enclosure 3, was accordingly
published.
3.
On receipt of your telegram of the 14th instant I issued a notification, copy enclosed, extending to the Anglo- Austrian war, the application of all Proclamations which had been published relative to the war with Germany, and enforcing against Austrian shipping the provisions of the Shipping Order- in-Council, altered in accordance with your directions. On receipt of your subsequent telegram of the 16th instant I issued the notification, Enclosure 5.
4.
The Austro-Hungarian Consul received orders to
leave, and the Austrian subjects domiciled in the Colony were allowed to remain on the same conditions as German residents.
I enclose a list of the Austrian reservists detained in the
Prisoners-of-war Camp at Stonecutters Island. Certain further measures taken by the Government affecting both belligerents equally, are referred to in my Benret
enret despatch of even date, on
the Anglo-German war.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT,M.P.,
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