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Immediate
WAR
OFFICE
378
The Director of Special Intelligence presents
his compliments to the Under Secretary of State
for the Colonies and begs to refer to a letter
from the Foreign Office dated the 1st July, a copy
of which has been sent to the Colonial Office,
respecting the examination by the Censor at Hong
Kong of mails addressed to the United States
Asiatic Fleet.
Brigadier-General Cockerill would suggest
that telegraphic instructions should be sent to
the Governor of Hong Kong that such mails are not
to be interfered with. He presumes that they were
censored through inadvertence.
War Office,
3rd July, 1916.