CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6] — Page 650

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Detective Office,

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Chief Detective Inspector.

Sir.

June 18th, 1919.

Regarding the two enclosed boxes forwarded

by the British Consul General, Canton, I visited Graça & Coy's Store, 10 Wyndham street, yesterday, and bought what appeared to be a similar box containing 1000 peelable stamp hinges for 60 cents. In front of the Asst. manager I removed the label "Graça & Coy., & etc.* and found under- neath a trade mark and description of the goode in English. In a glass case on counter I noticed another box, and asked to see it. At my request the Asst. manager removed the "Graça & Coy." label from it, and underneath we found a description of the goods in German exactly the same as that on the box forwarded by the Consul at Canton.

The manager told me that for the past six or seven years the Coy (Graça & Coy.) has been receiving by post a monthly supply of these peelable stamp hinges from G. T. Rapkin, Contractor to H. M. Government, 17-20 West Smithfield, London; and the two boxes forwarded from Canton for enquiry were part of the monthly consignments. I saw and examined a parcel that had just arrived but it did not contain the German description of the goods under any of the labels only the box I found in the glass case

did so.

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All these boxes are packed and fully labelled (1000 Peelable Stamp Hinges. Graça & Co., Hongkong, China,) by G. F. Rapkin, in England, and then sent to Graça & Coy.,

Hongkong,