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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG.

May 26th,

1915.

sir,

With reference to Your Excellency's letter of the

11th instant, I have the honour to inform you that I

gathered from the letter from the Foreign Office to the

Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated the 25th

of January last, copy of which is enclosed, that instruc-

tions would be issued to His Majesty's Consular Officers

in China regarding the conditions to be observed prior

to registration at their Consulates of British subjects

Hence my enquiry in my letter of

of Chinese descent.

the 23rd of April.

Should any such instructions be issued in the

future, I shall be much obliged for a copy of them.

I have &c.,

Majesty's Minister.

(Signed) F.H.May.

Governor, &c.,

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