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Please see the notes from Weihaiver
enclosing coorrs of 3 Cruilars which were received open, although the mailbag, conterning them
bore
no evidence of been's hampered with. The covers used although sufficiently large as not tosuggest that they
were burst open by perhaps hardly stout enough to withstand rough handling of the mailbags unless tightly packed in the bags : and as in one case the Envelope was contained with others m' a
the contents, are
seated cover which bose no signs of being
tampered with, it would seem that in that lave at least the cover did burst open.
These despatcher
route, as
they
wore sent by the Sebena were not regarded as so devel
as to necessitate their being conveyed via the Thames by British Steamer all the way.
писный Mr Harris
Washington
Kuuls
Jal 28/3/16
I have looked further into this matter and ascertain- ed from Mr. Wilson that there has been a great deal of correspondence during recent years on this subject. Neither Mr. Smith nor I appear to have seen it. The papers (See Hong Kong 20882/13 and previous papers)
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