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BDITIS BARSY.
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June 22, 1916.
JEG 3 JULIC
JUN 27 1916
erence to your deanatch No.115 of the "26th Wardan e
I have the honour to report that I
once more some days ago spoke to the Decretary
General at the Italian Foreign Office on the
subject of the attitude and the correspondence
of Signor Volpicelli, the Italian Consul-General
at Canton.
Commendatore De artino said that the first
impression made upon baron Lonnino by the extracts from letters which I had shown him was that Signor
'olnicelli should immediately be recalled. He had however found himself faced with the difficulty that Signor Volpicelli was the relative of one or
two influential deputies who had interceded on his
behalf.
l'e was apparently a very excitable man
without any sense of proportion and for the present
all that had been done was to reprimand him and
caution him severely as to the impropriety of the language he had used in his official correspondence.
l'e asked me whether I thought it was necessary
to do more than this at mresent, and suggested that it might be agreable to the Minister if we agreed
to wait a little and see whether Signor Volpicelli reformed his conduct and acted more reasonably
in future.
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Sir E. Grey Hart..., F.G., K.P.,
etc., etc., etc..
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