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War Office 12 EB15) IREC
Whitehall, S.W.
February 11th. 1915.
The Director of Military Operations presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, and begs to enclose for his information a copy of a cutting from the "Japan Weekly Mail" of the 9th. January. 1915.
In connection with this question, Major General Callwell thinks it may interest Sir John Anderson to know that a number of Chinese pamphlets, emanating from Germany, have been intercepted from time to time. These pamphlets, which give inaccurate and misleading accounts of the war, and are designed for reproduction in Chinese newspapers, are transmitted by agents in Holland and are sent in ordinary envelopes in order to resemble mercantile correspondence.
They have been eddressed to most of the treaty ports and also to Hong Kong. It may be possible, therefore, to intercept such pamphlets by local censor- ship.
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