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← gap” Address reply to-"The Secretary. General Post Office,"
95895/14.
quoting Bagistered No.
Sir,
144
GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON.
18 April 1916.
C
18640
REC
Red 19 PR16
mith reference to your letter of the 10th of this month,
No. 16866/1916, transmitting copies of notes from the
Commissioner of Weihaiwei concerning the condition in which
he received the covers addressed to him which are returned
herewith, I am directed by the Postmaster General to acquaint
you,
for the information of the Secretary of State for the
Colonies that he can see no ground for suspecting that the
covers were tampered with. As the Comissioner observes, the covers
are made of very poor paper, and whether or not it is decided
to send future correspondence of the kind by the Suez route, the Postmaster General suggests that reasonably strong covers
should be used, and that the poor quality of those in present
use should be brought to the notice of the Stationery Office.
In the experience of this Office it is not an unknown
occurrence for envelopes to give way at the edges through wear even during the comparatively short journeys in the inland
post; and the friction during a journey of about a month, mostly by railway involving several transfers, is quite sufficient to account for the state in which the envelopes
arrived.
The fact that the bags and the envelope in which the covers were enclosed were received intact with no signs of
he Under Secretary of State,
COLONIAL OFFICE.
having