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It has been shown that there have been frequent complaints regarding the mails to the East via Siberia having been tampered with, the allegation being that the Japanese had made quite a fine art of tampering with mails and postal correspondence. The General Post Office have throughout taken the line that the allegations as to irregularities were exaggerated.
I should say that there was no doubt that the envelopes now sent had been tampered with in some way and if, as in the case to which Mr. Smith refers, the outer envelopes show no signs of being tampered with, the most likely inference is that specialists were at work.
I suggest that, at any rate for the present, no secret and confidential despatches, which have reference to war matters, be sent via Siberian route. The saving in time which this route effects under peace conditions may be greatly diminished under war conditions. I note that the mail now in question left on the 29th of January and is answered on the 3rd of March, so it probably took about 5 weeks. But with the advent of Spring and the uncertainty as to the future of the campaign in Russia, the risk of loss of mails on the Siberian route seems to me to outweigh any possible advantage of saving time.
Mr. Grange, Mr. Smith, S.R.2, and Eastern Department should know the decision arrived at and when our action has been settled, we had better send the present note and enclosures to the Post Office with reference to the previous correspondence.
MW
TCM. 20/2/16.
In writing to the GPO, we might enquire what saving of time is effected at any rate and be sent under the approval of the Sec for the Mustab's point on health that copy, which another should be divorced, supplementing and preventing conditions in sending to A Hory Weihaiwei via Siberia. I have used the impression that, even with delay caused by war conditions, the northern route is much quicker.
There is usually delay by the sea route owing to congestion in the naval. The fact that the reply from HXW is dated 6 March and refers to GPO mail of 29 Jan does not necessarily prove that that mail had only just been received.
While we can pick out and fuse all the large secret despatches, it would be less complicated, and certainly give far less trouble, if it were decided to forward all despatches by the Sea route on Thursday evenings and abandon the Siberian route for the duration of the war.
Hollis
3/7/16
Under GPO, it is shown that during the war a considerable saving of time is made by using the Russian route instead of sending everything by sea. His guilt is likely...
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quite a fine art of tampering with Mails and postal correspondence, The General Post Office have throughout taken the line that the allegations as to regularities
were exaggerated.
I should say that there was no doubt that the envelopes now sent had been tampered with in some way and if, as in the case to which Mr. Smith refers, the outer envelopes show no signs of being tampered with, the most likely inference is that specialists were at
work.
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5 weeks. But with the advent of Spring and the uncertain- ty as to the future of the campaign in Russia, the risk
of loss of Mails on the Siberian route seems to me to
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