COPY.
HOUSE
CF
COMMONS,
July 14th 1915.
BRITISH SHIPS IN CHINA.
£3
Dear Lord Robert Cecil,
I enclose two letters, which give expression
to certain objections our sailors have to being
visited on board their ships by Germans in the
Chinese service.
I expect if a word were put in to the Inspector
General of Customs
-
Mr Aglen he would do what
he could to minimise as far as possible contact
between our "Ship Captains" and officials who be-
long to nations at war with us. I have marked
in pencil the material passages what would happen
to a Captain refusing to let a German on board his
ship I don't know?
Yours &c.
G. Stewart.
P.S.
(Signed).
I am much obliged for your letter re opium
etc and morphia I am asking the Board of Trade
for some figures.
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