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Enclosure 2.
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Government House,
Hongkong, 21st June, 1916.
Sir,
In reply to Your Excellency's Confidential letter
of the 16th instant No. 5/136, I have the honour to inform you that Mr. and Mrs. Schmülling (this is the proper spelling of the name) were searched by the Police on arrival by the S. S. "Tjisondari" on the 9th instant by which steamer Mr. Schmülling, who is an Assistant "esident in Java was proceeding to Canada and
America on the service of his Goverment.
2.
As a result of the search the enclosed documenta were found. I attach a précis of their contents from which it will be seen that they are innocent scientific reports intended
for the Colonial Department at Berlin.
The date of the report referring to the Admiralty
Islands is May 1914.
The other report which relates to the Solomon islands is undated and was in all probability written prior to
the war.
3.
As the passports of Mr. and Mrs. Schmülling were : in order there was no ground upon which to interfere with the liberty of these people whom I permitted to proceed on their journey on the 12th instant by the vessel in which they arrived, after Mr. Schmulling had been prosecuted and fined £200 for a
breach of the Post Office Ordinance.
4.
Fie Excellency
"ajor-General F. Ventris,
Commanding the Troops in China.
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