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OFFICES which dispatch and receive direct Mails to and from the Continent.

Office.

Birmingham

Bradford

Bristol

Dover

Dublin

Edinburgh..

Folkestone

Glasgow

Harwich

Hull

Leeds

Leicester

Lewes Liverpool

Outward Mails.

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Inward Mails.

Germany, France. ¦ Germany.

France. Belgium, Germany.

France, Germany (Hamburg).. France, Germany, Holland. Germany

France, Germany (Ostend- Verviers T.0.), Gibraltar, Malta, Holland, Belgium (Brussels)

France, Denmark (Copenhagen) France (Boulogne) .. France, Germany, Denmark

(Copenhagen) Holland (Rotter lam)

France (Dieppe)

France, Germaury

France, Germany, Holland

(Amsterdam)

Newcastle-on-Tyne.. France, Norway (Bergen)

Manchester

Nottingham

Sheffield

Southampton

France

North-Western T.P.O.

France, Germany. Germany, France, Holland. France.

France, Germany, Holland,

Belgium.

Holland.

France, Germany, Belgium,

Holland.

Germany.

France, Germany, Belgium,

Holland.

France, Belgium, Germany,

Holland

Germany, Holland. Germany, France. Germany.

France.

France, Italy, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belginnı.

Appendix III.

NOTE BY THE SECRETARY.

FROM the observations of the Secretary of the Post Office it does not appear that there is any need for special legislation in order to establish some such postal censorship as the General Staff think desirable either in time of war or of strained relations immediately preceding war. It appears to be a Departmental matter, and to rest with the Post Office to arrange that a restricted censorship of letters, such as they recognise to be practicable, could be set in motion immediately on receipt of the authority of the Secretary of State for Home Affairs. An exception to this is, however, noted in the concluding paragraph of Sir M. Nathan's observations.

2. The views of the Post Office with regard to the policy of censoring letters were set forth in a former Note by the Secretary submitted to the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence which, during last year, considered the question of Foreign Espionage. They are as follows :-

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"So far as the Post Office is concerned in the question of policy, a strong view has always been held that the power of interfering with correspondence should be used as sparingly as possible. It is very undesirable to shake public confidence in the security of the post; and if the power of opening letters were used to any considerable extent it would be very difficult to secure that the fact should remain secret. It is seldom possible to confine to a very small number of persons the knowledge that letters are being detained. Moreover, in the case of spies, it appears very doubtful whether any useful results would follow from the examination of correspondence, since it is improbable that any letter of importance would be received or despatched by a spy without the use of devices for concealment."

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