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to ensure the locument being accepted as conclusive.
This might be done by stamping on the document a statement to this effect.
His Majesty's consular officers should
in future never decline to attest such declarations on the ground that they doubt their veracity, but they should report by telegraph, for transmission to the Foreign Office direct all cases in which they suspect the statements to be untrue, giving reasons. These instructions supersede those contained in my above-mentioned telegram of 27th February, but my telegram of 27th February as to certificates of origin still holds good.
Consuls to be instructed accordingly.
(To Rome only).
You will note that instructions, addition- al to those contained in my telegram No.615 of 28th May will be necessary in the case of His Majesty's
consul at Rhodes,
(Also to Sophia, No. 153, and Bucharest, No.264, leaving out reference).
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