CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5] — Page 511

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REGE 29 MAY 16

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Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 6th. Jamary, 1916.

I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st. December regarding the man James Ryan,

2.

In the first place I am to express the regret of this Government that this man was sent back by the 3.S."Nippon Maru" without further reference to you. Ryan was found by the Police Magistrate to be destitute and, being dodlared by him to be a vagrant, he was committed to the House of Detention under the provisions of Ordinance No. 9 of 1897. The Captain Superintendent of Police thereupon, in accordance with that Ordinance, called upon the master of the S.S."Nippon Maru" to take him away from the Colony, being unaware of the correspondence between this office and

yourself.

3. I am to request that, in the event of there being any question of sending Ryan again through this Coley, this Government may be furnished beforehand with proofs of his birth

and citizenship.

The Consul-General for the U.8.A.

Hongkong.

I am etc.,

(Bd.) and Severn,

Colonial Secretary.