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referred to in (2) and (3) above, the Government should take the following steps, which the General Post Office consider can be carried out :

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(a.) Impose a partial or complete censorship on all postal matter destined for specified countries. The General Post Office to be responsible for carrying out the censorship, and the Admiralty and War Office, in consultation with the Foreign Office, to be responsible for notifying the General Post Office as to what the countries should be.

(b.) Delay the despatch of mails from or to any particular place at such precise moment and for such comparatively brief period as the Admiralty or War Office may deem necessary."

(5.) The Sub-Committee are of opinion that the postal service with an enemy country should not be prohibited.†

J. E. B. SEELY (Chairman). WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. ESHER.

M. P. A. HANKEY (Secretary).

(Signed)

EYRE A. CROWE.

A. F. KING.

H. B. JACKSON.

W. GRAHAM GREENE.

DAVID HENDERSON.

G. M. W. MACDONOGH. A. H. DENNIS.

R. H. BRADE.

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2, Whitehall Gardens, S.W.,

February 4, 1913.

The power temporarily to detain all vessels in British ports, including neutral mail packets, can be exercised by means of the "droit de prince" (vide Report of the Sub-Committee on the "Treatment of Neutral and Enemy Merchantmen in Time of War").

†This conclusion, which is based on paragraph 10 of the Report, was added by direction of the C.I.D. at their 122nd Meeting held on February 6, 1913.

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