CO129-439 - Others - 1916 — Page 145

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← gap” Address reply to-"The Secretary. General Post Office,"

95895/14.

quoting Bagistered No.

Sir,

144

GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON.

18 April 1916.

C

18640

REC

Red 19 PR16

mith reference to your letter of the 10th of this month,

No. 16866/1916, transmitting copies of notes from the

Commissioner of Weihaiwei concerning the condition in which

he received the covers addressed to him which are returned

herewith, I am directed by the Postmaster General to acquaint

you,

for the information of the Secretary of State for the

Colonies that he can see no ground for suspecting that the

covers were tampered with. As the Comissioner observes, the covers

are made of very poor paper, and whether or not it is decided

to send future correspondence of the kind by the Suez route, the Postmaster General suggests that reasonably strong covers

should be used, and that the poor quality of those in present

use should be brought to the notice of the Stationery Office.

In the experience of this Office it is not an unknown

occurrence for envelopes to give way at the edges through wear even during the comparatively short journeys in the inland

post; and the friction during a journey of about a month, mostly by railway involving several transfers, is quite sufficient to account for the state in which the envelopes

arrived.

The fact that the bags and the envelope in which the covers were enclosed were received intact with no signs of

he Under Secretary of State,

COLONIAL OFFICE.

having