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150
Downing Street,
29 April, 1916.
DRAFT.
ONG KONG
GOVERNOR
Compl.
SIR F.H.MAY,K.C.M.G. &c., &c., &c.
MINUTE.
Mr. Finn 27/4/16
Mr.
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Mr.
Coleris
Mr.
Sir G. Fiddes.
Sir H. Just.
27 fo
Sir,
I have the honour to inform you
that it has been brought to my notice
that it is possible that the mails proceed.
ing by the Siberian route may on two
recent occasions have been tampered with
2. In the while in transitund that therefore, I
consider it advisable that the practice of
fts
Sir J. Anderson.
Mr. Steel-Maitland.
Mr. Bonar Law.
sending mails by that route should be
abandoned during the war, although the
I have, etc.,
(SD)
sex sonte is lower and there
1
may be danger of the Tore f
mails in the rentemanem:
It have them fire buquest that mutil the termination.
I hortbites at mails my
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