CO129-584-8 Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force 16-5-1940 - 5-4-1941 — Page 21

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SECRET (2).

My Lord,

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

RECEIVED

28 MAY 1940

16th May, 1940.

I have the honour to forward herewith the annual

Enclosure No.1. report for the year 1st April, 1939 - 31st March, 1940, on

the Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and the Hong

Enclosure No.2. Kong Naval Volunteer Force, together with the comments

to Admy

21.6.40.

вход

مسلا

thereon of Commodore A.M. Peters, D.S.C., R.N,

2.

It gives me great pleasure to have read the

Commodore's high appreciation of the valuable services

rendered by the Reserve and Force to the Imperial War effort

and to endorse his commendations of the efficiency and zeal

of the officers and men of the two forces and of the devotion

of Commander J. Petrie, D.S.C., commanding the Hong Kong

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and the Hong Kong Naval

Volunteer Force, to his arduous duties, in the performance

of which he has attained conspicuous success.

3.

I recently discussed with Commander Petrie the

question raised in the seventh paragraph of the Commodore's

letter. He was told that the war-made demands upon the

Civil Service were such that I could hold out no hope of

more members of the Service who hold commissions in the

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve or Naval Volunteer Force

being available for mobilization

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fourteen were mobilized

in the early months of the war and eleven are still on

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD LLOYD OF DOLOBRAN,

&C.,

&C.,

&c.