CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8] — Page 261

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Sir,

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 26th July, 1916.

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With reference to your despatch No. 137 of the

30th of May, I have the honour to transmit for your consideration the enclosed copy of a letter from Mr. A. J. Miller concerning the question of the continuance to him of his Colonial allow- -ance while serving with His Majesty's Army.

2.

Mr. Miller was a Prison Warder who volunteered for Military Service, with other members of the Police and Prison Departments, for the duration of the war and the Colonial Government promised to re-instate all these Volunteers on their return to the Colony after the war. Mr. Miller appears to have succeeded in obtaining his discharge from the Army in February last in order to obtain employment in England, and he intimated the fact that he did not desire to return to Hongkong and asked to be recommended for some post at home. He was accordingly supplied with a Certificate of Service here. Subsequently he intimated his desire to return to this Colony, but under the Military Service Act he is now required to serve again in the

Army.

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3.

Although strictly speaking Mr. Miller must, think, be regarded as having resigned in February last his

appointment

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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ANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P.,

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