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Montgomery Ward & Co.,
Chicago, 0.8.A.
beo. 6. 1916.
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KOLEDARSNING O
The Honorable,
The Secretary of State,
Washington.
811 :-
Receipt is acknowledged of your favor of November
33nd with enclosure from Great Britain No.5138, October 38th, 1916 and also enclosure $210717/A.
If convenient, we would be glad to receive the
papers which accompanied our letter of July 3lat, showing the detention of cargo at Hongkong, shipped on through bills of lading from Chicago to Bangkok, Bian and
Sourabaya, Java, We do not understand that part of the
enclosed copy of letter from Great Britain, which reads
as follows:
"It appears however that there would be no object in causing the goods to be forwarded to Siam as according to the information of His Majesty's Government the Siamese Government have not issued a licence for their admission and do not intend to do so.
Mr. Spillman admits that he has both the arms and ammunition concealed in cases of Hission Stores marked "Condensed Milk" in order to avoid detection by the Customs at Hongkong and that he wishes them removed therefrom and the remain- der of the goods sent on. "
The arms and famunition supplied by us were not
packed with condensed milk and we do not want the British
Government to think that we should connive or be a party
to any misapprehension.
When we ship merchandise of
this