CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917 — Page 41

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REG 17 MAR 17

The Director of Special Intelligence

presents his compliments to the Under Secretary

of State for the Colonies and bags to refer to

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Sir G. Fiddes' letters No.59989 of the 20th

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December and No1126 of the 9th January on the

subject of the correspondence of Chinese

coolies working in France.

Brigadier-General Cockerill begs to state that arrangements have been made by which the

correspondence in question both to and from China will normally be censored at the Chinese depot in France. Special mail bags will be

made up at Wei-hai-wei and in France for the conveyance of this correspondence to and from

China.

The British Recruiting Agent at Wei-hai-wei

will receive letters addressed to the coolies and

transmit them in the bag to France, and letters

from/