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officer has checked it. Where does Mr Caer keep that

imitation of your signaturs in his poolt or in his

desk ?

I cant say where he keeps i.

The greater part of the day it is lying on is desk ? 1466!

It is lying on his desk. The only other che is that

all the papers as they come in from Mr Cartels desk

are put in one special tox, and I take the fom that

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box, but still it is possible for a man during the day

to take one of those notices, and stamp them, because

they all know which box they are in.

So it is quite possible for you to sign papers wich 14661

have been put into a box or your basket for your

signature by some Chinaman, for his own ends, and you

might by fraud be induced to sign papers which shoulá

not be signed, and which are put to an improper use

afterwards. Isnt that so ?

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That is 80.

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I am merely putting this to you as a business man,

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

C.O. 537

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Humphreyes:-

I want to direct your attention to points which seem to

me to show a want of busines supervision in your office,

and I can understand how the enormous leakage of

information, which you could not account for. I must

tell you that you seem to have very little business

supervision in your office. It seems to me that all

this system you have been explaining is no check at

all. The check breaks down as soon as you have a

Chinaman clever enough and rogus enough ti svude it,

and Lo Man Kai was clever enough.

You say you supply notiɑss, the office copies of which

have been checked and signed in your name by Mr Carter.

Now, when you send these checked copies, are they ever

RECORD OFFICE, LONDON OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC

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