Endorine 1.
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Headquarter Offices,
South China Command,
Hongkong, 7th August, 1914.
Your Excellency,
I have the honour to request that you will
approach HB.M.Minister in Paking with a view to the establish- ment of Postal and Telegraphic Censorship in the British Post and Telegraph Office in the Shameen at Canton.
It is realised that the Chinese Post Offices are
open to foreign agents but at the same time addressors of telegrams are ignorant as to whether their wires are being despatched or not by the British Telegraphic Office.
There can be little doubt that any German wishing
to notify his Government of the movemente say of H.M.S"Triumph" need only send a messenger to Canton or take it there himself. I understand that there is a German Post Office
actually in the Shameen which should of course be closed as
early as possible.
I have, etc.
Sd.
F. H. KELLY
Major-General
Commanding the Troops, South China.
His Excellency
Sir F. H. May, K.C.M.G...,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief,
Hongkong.