CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924 — Page 49

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ON THIS SIDE.

In any further communication on

this subject, please quote

No. K 1925/834/210.

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not to any person by name,

"The Under-Secretary of State,” Foreign Office,

London, S. W. i.

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FOREIGN OFFICE., S.W.1

15 FEB 24

14th February,

1923.

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With reference to your letter No. 3964/24 of the 30th ultimo relative to the case of Mr.F.J.Brooke, late of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, I am àirected by Mr. Secretary Ramsay MacDonald to state, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that this department cannot accept the cost of repatriating British subjects to this country when such repatriation is undertaken by officers not in the service of this department and that as the Hongkong authorities decided to repatriate Brooke, it is considered that the Hongkong Government should bear

If that the expenditure ingurred on this account. government however desires to avoid the necessity of assuming liability for expenditure in cases of this nature it would seem open to it to take such Buch steps as may be possible to prevent persons

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as the individual whose case is now under considera- tion, from entering the colony.

he Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

19 12011

Imatyki TJUK

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Alvaterlon