MFT.
o. 7874/1916.
Sir,
Downing Street,
377
February, 1916.
With reference to the letter from this
Department of the 14th February, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Bonar Law to inform you that it is regretted
(your favour that no exception can be made in favour of the American Express Company to the rule prohibiting the use of telegraphic addresses registered since the outbreak of war, since it is feared that to make an exception in favour of a foreign company would lead to demands for a similar concession from many British firma.
2. In these circumstances there is no alter- native but to ask you to
(1)
(2)
2. In these circumstances the American Express Company have been asked to
instruct your correspondents to use
your
their
full address at Hong Kong, but in the meantime British
Censors will be advised that telegrams addressed to
Amexco, Hong Kong, should not for the present be
stopped on that account.
3.
(1) only.
The Consul General for the United States of America has been informed in the sense of this letter.
I am, etc.,
THE AGENT
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY.
THE CONSUL GENERAL
FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
(Signed) H. J. READ.
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