CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916 — Page 380

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OFFICE

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The Director of Special Intelligence presents

his compliments to the Under Secretary of State

for the Colonies and begs to refer to a letter

from the Foreign Office dated the 1st July, a copy

of which has been sent to the Colonial Office,

respecting the examination by the Censor at Hong

Kong of mails addressed to the United States

Asiatic Fleet.

Brigadier-General Cockerill would suggest

that telegraphic instructions should be sent to

the Governor of Hong Kong that such mails are not

to be interfered with. He presumes that they were

censored through inadvertence.

War Office,

3rd July, 1916.