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Any further communication on this subject

should be addressed to-

The Under Secretary of State for India,

Fublic Department,

India Office,

London, SW,

and the following reference quoted --

J. & 2. (5.) 1112/16.|

Telegraphic Address : RETAXANDUM, LONDON,

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61345

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INDIA OFFICE,

WHITEHALL,

LONDON, SW.

21st

December, 1916.

Secret.

Sir,

Fit 1.5. For

2015

1

With reference to the Foreign Office memorandum

of the 13th instant, No. 247574/45/h, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India to transmit for information a

ith December, copy of a telegram which he has sent to the Government of

India on the subject of closer co-ordination of Intelligence

in the Far East.

A copy is being sent also to the Foreign Office, the Director of Military Intelligence, and the Director,

Intelligence Division.

Mr. Chamberlain presumes that under the revised arrangements the Government of India can count upon being at once advised by the Governor of Hongkong of any action taken

in that Colony with regard to Indians despatched under

arrest. The Government of India reported that they were

left without official information of the despatch to Rangoon

from Hongkong in February of the Indians taken off the "Tenyo

Maru". This point is bein discussed with the Admiralty.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

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The Under Secretary of State,

COLONIAL OFFICE.

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