CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 93

COPY.

HOUSE

CF

COMMONS,

July 14th 1915.

BRITISH SHIPS IN CHINA.

£3

Dear Lord Robert Cecil,

I enclose two letters, which give expression

to certain objections our sailors have to being

visited on board their ships by Germans in the

Chinese service.

I expect if a word were put in to the Inspector

General of Customs

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Mr Aglen he would do what

he could to minimise as far as possible contact

between our "Ship Captains" and officials who be-

long to nations at war with us. I have marked

in pencil the material passages what would happen

to a Captain refusing to let a German on board his

ship I don't know?

Yours &c.

G. Stewart.

P.S.

(Signed).

I am much obliged for your letter re opium

etc and morphia I am asking the Board of Trade

for some figures.

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