CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917 — Page 153

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Montgomery Ward & Co.,

Chicago, U.8.A.

150

January 6th, 1917.

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The Honorable,

The Secretary of State,

Washington, D. C.

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Receipt is acknowledged of your favor of December

19th with further reference to shipments from Chicago to

Bangkok, 81am and Bourabaya, Java, detained by the British

authorities at Hongkong.

Since received your letter we have again carefully

looked over documenta covering shipments referred to in papers enclosed with our letter addressed to the Department

of State dated July 31st, and find that we did not ship

condensed milk.

Our shipments were made on a through B/L from

Chicago to Bangkok and Sourabaya and we cannot understand

how Mr. Spilman could have arma and ammunition concealed in

cases shipped by us.

As previously stated, we do not want the British

Government to think that we would connive or take part in

concealing arms and ammunition. To pack goods of this kind in a separate box, stencil the contents on the outside

of the box and show the full description in our shipping

documents.

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