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Confidential.
H.B..'s Consulate-General,
Kanila, August 20, 1915.
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sir,
In reply to your despatch of the 7th.instant,
I have the honour to inform you that Boehm and Wehde are on the American schooner "Henry S.' which left here on July 14th. ostensi. -bly for Pontianak, Dutch Borneo. The suspicious circumstances attending this vessel have been reported to the Admiral (in detail) and also to the Intelligence Officer at Hongkong.
After endeavouring to clear with 167 cases of firearms (?rifles and revolvers) and ammunition from German steam- -era here ostensibly to Shanghai, the "Henry S." had to leave with only 2 rifles 5 revolvers and 4,507 rounds of ammmition for supposed to be personal property of Wehde and Boehn. I have no knowledge of any scheme to secure arms in the Dutch East Indies, but the presence on board of an educated Indian who probably arrived here on the same steamer as the two Germare suggests some action involving his use as an interpreter.
I have no news of Merz and Scholz; nor did any -thing transpire during the short stay of Dr. Cook and Brooks to throw doubt on his alleged intention to go to India in order to climb Mt. Everest.
I have etc.,
(So.) Thomas Harrington,
Acting British Consul-General.
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His Excellency
The Governor of Hongkong,
Hongkong.
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