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REG 10 DEC15

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 11th September, 1915.

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I am directed to state that this Government has been informed by His Majesty's Minister at Bangkok that the Singapore Government have seized and have unloaded into Govern- ment godowns a shipment of rice from the mill owned by the German fimm of Mesars. Markwald and Company of Bangkok.

I am to request that you will be so good as to inform me of the circumstances under which this seizure WES

made.

The Honourable

The Colonial Secretary,

SINGAPORES

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etc.

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CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.