CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6] — Page 46

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Communications on this subject should be addressed to

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,

COLONIAL OFFICE,

LONDON, S.W.,

and the following Number quoted.

21072/1915.

1915.

Downing Street,

7

May,

1915.

Sir,

It is my painful duty to inform you by direc-

tion of Mr Secretary Harcourt, that a telegram has

been received from the Governor of Hong Kong reporting

that your cousin Mr William Dobbs, Overseer in the

Public Works Department of the Colony, was accidentally

drowned in Australia on the 18th of April. Mr Harcourt

desires me to express his sincere sympathy with r

Dobbs' relatives.

2. No further information is at present in

Mr Harcourt's possession but any details that may

reach him will be communicated to you without delay.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

H.J. Read.

for the Under Secretary of State

MR ROBERT DOBES.