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Inland Tifographic Address "TESTIMONY, FLEET, LONDON"

Cable Address" TESTIMONY, LONDON"

Telegraphic Code" C.I.M ̊.CM B.EDITION.

Telephone CITY 7884/2 LINET,

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L/N.

32478

REC

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Church Missionary Society. Salisbury Square. London EC.

July 10th,

1916

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REG 11 JULIC

The Right Honourable

The Secretary of State for the Colonies,

Colonial Office, S.T.

:

sir.

An enquiry has reached us from the Colonial

Secretary's Office, Hong Kong, as to whether we would be

willing to purchase a certain property in Hong Kong, formerly

belonging to the Rhenish Mission. My Committee would

probably be very glad to obtain this property. We under-

stand from our secretary, Archdeacon Barnett, who is now

in this country, that he imagines that the Government has

decided that all German property in the Colony is to be Bold

and their affairs liquidated.

While we shall be very glad to acquire this property

if Germans are not to be allowed to live in Hong Kong any

more yet we should be unwilling to do so if there is any

possibility of the Rhenish Hission returning in the near

future. We have always worked on friendly terms with them

and no one Kiesionury Society would like to do anything