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No. 1695.
Sir,
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Hongkong, 6th. October, 1915.
I have the honour to refer to the following text
of a telegram personally handed by you to Mr. Consul-General de Deus
on 20th. July last at the Colonial Secretariat:-
"It is believed that a man named Bohm (alias Dr. Cock)
and his companion Albert Tehde, who may be accompanied by two
persons, named Emil Herz and Scholz, have chartered a schooner at
Manila and have sailed to Pontianak on July 14th. possibly intend
to take arms to Ching, but there is evidence that Germans are
attempting to collect arms in the Tutch East Indies with a view
to action against British India".
Mr. de Reus sent the above telegram to His Excel-
-lency the Governor General of Netherlands India the following day
and I was favoured with a reply thereto under date of 21st. September
last.
From the two official reports herewith it appears
that officially papers and ship have been found in order and that no
irregularity has been discovered. The charterer Ibert Wehde is n
jeweller, according to his papers, and is making a voyage in order to
collect curios and to make studies in the department of ethnography.
mr. Wehde acknowledged to have had on board a cargo of anus and
munitions, which had been loaden at walila but later on discharged,
which indeed has been the case no cording to ilonila newspapers and
reports from the Netherlands Consul there.
On the other hand his conduct, his endeavours to
elude his constrained stay at Paleleh and his plan to continue his voynge are diametrically opposed to the object stated. On the 18t.
August he left Paleleh in a motorboat with the purpose to reach Lamilɛ
via Menado, the Sangi and Talaud Islands and Samboengan in order to buy there new parts for the defective motor of the "Henry S" and then
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