CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919 — Page 194

Ceylon Exx/437

Mauritius Erv/81

Shails Ex/631731 62804/15

82306, 21/6083568, + 5/627 1/4

In any further communication

ou this subject, please quote

No. 204266/10/1918.

and address,

not to any person by name,

but to-

"The Undor-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, B.W.1.

REC

1646

the 8 JAN 19

M. State

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Sir:-

137

FOREIGN OFFICE S.W.1

January

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1919.

(As regards ous 32806 HM, & Err/6375. the

launders

Lecar

jact

to have been sent owing

that the replies leck had not been wartend

$25

Circular & that being in liver they 5.0.)

in Repolin hadn't reached 5.B.

I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign

Affairs to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the

0.05. 11th ultimo 57679/1918 regarding the return to Hongkong

of the enemy residents who were sent from that Colony

for interment in Australia.

Mr. Balfour desires me to say that he sees no objec-

tion to the course of action suggested by Mr. Secretary

Long but he considers that the procedure adopted should

be uniform for all Colonies.

I am,

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

sir,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

W. Tynell

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