ملف رقم ٩٥٩ لسنة ١٩١٤ الجزء ٢ "الحبشة: المرسوم الملكي البريطاني. استرداد نفقات الاحتفاظ بالسجناء المحكومين في الحبشة والمحتجزين في سجن محافظة عدن". [و‎‎١‎٧‎٦] (٨٧٨/٢٧٧)

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In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
' NoJ 950/2/1.
* and address—
not to any person by name,
but to—
“ The Under-Secretary of State,”
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.l.
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S.W.l.
18th May, 1S26.
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19 MAY
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he Under Secretary of State,
In di a 0 f fi c e.
Sir,
With reference to the letter from this department of
the 10th March regarding the place of detention of British
subjects convicted in Abyssinia, I am directed by Secretary
Sir Austen Chamberlain to request you to lay before the
Earl of Birkenhead the accompanying copy of the report on
this subject given by the Law Officers of the Crown and to
request that this report may be treated as highly confidential
2. It will be seen that the Lew Officers do not
consider that the proposed amendment of article 35 of the
Abyssinian Order in Council is a satisfactory method of
dealing with the difficulty and they express the opinion
that the points at issue can be dealt with under section 2 (d'
of the Prisoners Removal Act 1884, which has been applied
to Abyssinia by paragraph 79 of the principal Order.
3. Subject to any observations which the Earl of
Birkenhead may desire to make, Sir A. Chamberlain proposes
to proceed with the issue of the proposed article to replace
article 56, and to instruct His Majesty^ Minister at Adais
Ababa to deal with the removal of prisoners under article 35
in the manner prescribed by the Prisoners Removal Act ox
1884.
I am,
Si r,
Your obedient Servant,