CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11] — Page 390

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NO CONFIDENTIAL.

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Regd: 28 Dec

GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG.

16th November, 1914.

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your

code telegram of the 11th November which decoded was as follows:-

"Your telegram of the 30th October. Missionaries. Foreign

"Office consider that question is for the decision of the

"General Officer Commanding. I concur*.

2.

I explained in the concluding paragraph of my

confidential despatch of the 4th instant that I had arranged with the General Officer Commanding that these two gentlemen and two other German missionaries in similar circumstances should be allow- ed to proceed to their Society's Mission Stations in the Canton Province, and I have learned from enquiry that they left the Colony

on the 9th instant.

3.

I attach copy of correspondence on the subject with the General Officer Commanding. I may add that none of these gentlemen possessed independent means, and that the Societies to which they belong confine their activities to the neighbouring province and require their members to specialise in its local dialects which are not understood in the other Chinese provinces.

I have the honour to be,

sir,

Your most obedient,

humble servant,

| THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT. M.P.,

&c..

&c..

&c.

Governor,&c.

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