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September 11th, 1912.
9 OCT 18
Sir:-
With reference to your despatch No.35 of 3rd.
instant requesting me to ascertain from the Postal
Agent of the British Post Office at Tientsin and from
the Field Post Office whether there was any reason to
suppose that the mails addressed to the British
Legation, Peking, viâ Siberia, had at any time been
tampered with en route, I have the honour to inform you
that I have made enquiries in this sense.
Mails addressed to the British Legation, Peking,
are never received directly by the Field Post Office;
the British Mails all go, in the first place, to the
British Post Office at Tientsin where they are sorted,
and all mail matter addressed to the British Legation
is placed in the Field Post Office receptacle. An
orderly from that office immediately conveys thither
all the mails to be distributed by the Field Post
81r J. N. Jordan, G.C.I.E., K.C.B.,
&c.
Office