CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 77

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anything of a suspicious or undesirable character. No

correspondence of any kind or from any source, should be

forwarded to enemy Post Offices in China.

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Sir E. Grey would also be glad if all information

likely to be of interest to any Department of His Majesty's

Government which may be discovered in the course of the

examination of letters or telegrams could be communicated

promptly and in cases of special urgency by telegram, to

this or any other Department of His Majesty's Government

concerned, and to any of His Majesty's Representatives or

His Majesty's Consular Officers to whom it may be of use.

In this connection I am to observe that any information

as to the commercial activities, organization, or success

of enemy firms, as to any attempts of enemy firms to

continue trading under cover of the name of a neutral

employe or agent or of a bogus neutral company or as to

any attempt of a British firm to maintain relations with an

enemy firm, is of particular interest under the present

circumstances.

I am to urge the extreme importance of a careful and

thorough

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