CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915 — Page 418

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London, S.W.

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30th

August, 1915

I am commanded by the Army Council to

acknowledge the poeipt of the letters from

the

your Department 24988/1915 of the 8th June

244 13040

and 63840 of the 12th August with regard to evasion of the censorship at Hongkong by Mr. Hakon Schlater.

It appears to the Council that, by section 7, subsection (1) of the Hongkong Post Office Ordinance, 1900, all letters specified under

section 34, subsection (2), (a) to (f), of the

Imperial "Post Office Act, 1908" are exempt from

the exclusive privilege of the Poetmaster General

of Hongkong created by section 6, subsection (2)

of the Ordinance, and that the legality of

despatching such letters will not be affected by

the contemplated amendment of that subsection.

I am to explain that Regulation 24 of the

Defence of the Realm (Consolidation) Regulations,

1914, as amended by the Order in Council of the

23rd March, 1915, was made in order to prevent the

conveyance to or from the United Kingdom, otherwise than through the post of all letters, except those

he Under Secretary of State.

Colonial Office.

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