CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914 — Page 311

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These arguments were

Chinese postal authorities.

endorsed by Sir Henry May and their force some –

what reluctantly acknowledged by the General.

I should mention that when, prior to the de-

claration of war between Great Britain and Ger-

many, rumours were circulating that, in the event

of hostilities breaking out between the two coun-

tries, private property would be subject to con-

fiscation, I gave the acting German Consul to

understand officieusement that, so far as I was

aware, such would not be case, but that should

specific instructions, modifying this expression

of opinion, be received, they would of course be

carried out.

I venture to submit that the apprehensions

of General Kelly are somewhat exaggerated. No

Germans are now allowed to visit Hongkong from

Canton. All reservists have already left, and

the only means of transmitting news, which on re-

ceipt here has been censored and is out of date,

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