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REC REG 18 OFC 16
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The Director of Special Intelligence presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and begs to forward a copy of a letter dated the 9th December from the French to the British Post Office together with the reply which the latter propose to send.
Brigadier-General Cookerill would be glad
if telegraphic instructions could be sent to the Governor of Hong Kong that no mails emanating from or addressed to French territory should be censored in that Colony and that such mails should not be landed from neutral ships for the purpose of censorship, if it is possible to distinguish them from neutral and enemy mails.
War Office,
16th December, 1916.