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Headquarter Office,

South China Command,

Hongkong, 13th August, 1914.

Your Excellency,

A censored cable from a correspondent BATE at Tientsin to the Exchange Telegraph Company, London, states:-

"German firms domiciled British concession Tientsin "sending quantities food stuffs Teingtau via Chinese "Railway. Consignors device conceal destination being "ostensibly sending cargo Tainanfu".

I have the honour to request that H.B.M.Minister at Peking may be asked to take the necessary steps to prevent this reported breach of neutral China.

I have, etc.

sd.

F. H. KELLY

Major-General

Commanding the Troops in South China.

His Excellency

Sir Francis Henry May, K.C.M.G ...,

Governor of Hongkong.