CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 573

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083/4919 (.1.1. 478)

WAR OFFICE

27th January,

1916.

587

My dear Butler,

In paragraph 5 of a confidential despatch,

dated the 9th September, forwarded to us with a Colonial

Office memo of the 20th October, the Governor of Hongkong

says that he knows that the German Consuls at Canton and

Swatow have had personal confabulations with Indians,

which can have but one object. It might be of the

greatest assistance to us if the Governor could give us

names of Indians in such cases, In this particular

instance it might not have been possible, but in some

of his previous despatches, eg. that of the 13th August,

the Governor seems to have purposely avoided giving

names.

F. G. A. Butler, Esq.,

COLONIAL OFFICE.

Yours ever,

French.