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P.-No. 8.

In any further communice-

tion on this subject, please quote

K.05359.

and addrew letter to-

The Secretary,

Admiralty, Whitehall, London, S., 1.

30612

SECRET

REC

Admiralty,

36

20th June 1918.

sir.

REG 22 JUN 181

•

I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of

the Admiralty to forward herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, an extract

from a letter which has been received from the Commodore

Hong Kong, dated 3rd April 1918, relative to difficulties of communicating with the Colonial Government on matters

The matter

of importance on Sundays and holidays. referred to in this extract related to the guarding

of the crews from the Russian Ships which had been requisitioned by the British Government.

I am

sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Alen

for Secretary/t

The Under Secretary of State,

COLONIAL OFFICE.