CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10] — Page 241

COPY.

No. 3267/1914.

sir,

Enclosure 3.

233

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 2nd. September, 1915.

Referring to your letter No.0.R.4677/27 of the

29th. July, I am directed to point out that the War Office refer to

the cost of internment and maintenance of four categories of enemy

subjects, namely:-

2.

(a). Those arrested in the Colony.

(b). Those removed from British merchant ships calling at

the Port.

(c). Those brought into the Port by H..Ships.

(d). Those taken in the course of Military operations and

removed from occupied territory.

I am to request that you will be so good as to

supply a statement showing seperately the expenses incurred in

respect of each of these four categories. His Excellency the

Governor is without nuthority from the Secretary of State for the

Colonies to pay any of these charges and he proposes to address hil

on the subject as soon as he knows what the expenditure involved is.

I am etc.,

(sd.) Claud Severn,

Colonial Secretary.

The Deputy Assistant Adjutant and

Quartermaster-General.