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leaving Hongkong, consequent ufron the delivery
to me
of instuctions for the management of the Yokohama Pest Office. In that conversation
the question of the obliteration
or non- obliteration
of Stamps at Yokohama arose, and in connection
there with the Postmaster General
ial instructed me
to obliterate nothing, but
as a matter of fact I
am not in a position to state that I suggested
the obliteration of the stamps.
when the original memorandum was suffering from the effects of
drawn up I was
an accident which confined
me to bed and
rendered me
incapable of writing. His
Excellency Sir Richard
Graves MacDonnell
had requested on the morning of the
day on
which he left Yokohama that it should be
prepared and sent to him
by
3 o'clock
on
that
day. Being myself incapable of writing,
Certain
friends
undertook the task for me, and
as it was submitted to me
the how
appointed by
for signature almost at
His Excellency for it's
delivery to hime, I was compelled to sign it
withiont perusal and it was only in reading the
was awa
on Copy which had been retained that I that a misunderstanding had arisen between myself and those who prepared the document as to achat proface between the Postmaster General and
passed
myself
m
paragraph.
the occasion referred to in the last.
In addition to the fact stated in
paragraph b that no
complaints of the loss of letters
by the French Mail, posted here, kad ever been
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made, I would call attention to the circumstance
Miat no
complaints have at any time been
tom