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Copy.
No. 318.
(191917.)
BRITISH EMBASSY,
TOKYO.
October 1 1915.
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Sir,
With reference to my despatch No. 285 of September · 24, I have the honour to transmit to you, herewith,
a translation of the reply which I have received from the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs on the subject of the prohibition of the delivery to British Indians in China of the seditious newspaper entitled Cadr.
Baron Ishii states that, although such prohibition lacks the authority of treaty and law, the Imperial Government have decided as a special method of treat- ment at this juncture not to transmit and deliver the publication in question if it is contained among the general ordinary postal matter, and that instructions have been issued in this sense to the Japanese Post Offices concerned in China. With regard to regis- tered mails the Japanese Government regret that they are unable to deal with the matter in the same way. I have etc.
(Signed)
Conyngham Greene
e Rt. Hon.
Sir Edward Grey, Bart., K.G., M.P.
etc., etc., etc.
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