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Ree 14 OCT 16

The Director of Special Intelligence ṛresents his compliments to the Under Secretary

of State for Foreign Affairs and begs to refer to the letter from the Post Office to the Chief "ostal Censor dated the 14th September,1916 relative to the treatment of certain postal packets addressed to an enemy firm in China. ▲ copy of that letter was sent to the Foreign Office at the

time.

Brigadier-General Cookerill would suggest that, for the purpose of the censorship, postal packets received by the British Post Office at Shanghai addressed to persons other than British subjects should be considered to be postal packets passing in transit through British territory and ehould accordingly be treated in the manner provided in paragraph 3 of the supplementary memo- randum for the guidance of Censorship Officers in

British/