The Hong Kong Government Gazette/Volume 66/No 2 Extraordinary
The Hong Kong
Government Gazette
Extraordinary
Published by Authority.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1920.
The following Notification is published,
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 12.—His Excellency the Governor has received a telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the effect that the procès verbal of deposit of ratification of the Treaty of Peace with Germany was signed at 4 p.m. on Saturday, the 10th of January.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
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