Abstract:
Postal service--Postmasters; Newspapers--Censorship; Harry F. Bishop, Postmaster at Victoria; The New Republic
Subjects:
Postal service--Postmasters; Newspapers--Censorship; Harry F. Bishop, Postmaster at Victoria; The New Republic
Subjects Facet:
Postal service--Postmasters; Newspapers--Censorship; Harry F. Bishop, Postmaster at Victoria; The New Republic
Creator:
[unknown]
Contributors:
[unknown]
Date:
1915-06-24
Date searchable:
1915-06-24
Date searchable:
1915-06-24
Genre:
correspondence
Genre Facet:
correspondence
Format:
image/jpeg
Identifier:
Canadiana Identifier: Reel T-71, Image 786; Document Identifier: RG 6, E, volume 576. File 246-2, Part 1
Source:
Library and Archives Canada/Department of Secretary of State fonds/Reel T-71, Page786
Language:
English
Language Facet:
English
Rights:
© Government of Canada. Reproduced with the permission of Library and Archives Canada (2019). For rights governing the image’s use, please see the Canadiana Online Terms of Service at http://heritage.canadiana.ca/terms.
Description-Abstract:
Keywords: Canadian mail service
Location(s):
British Columbia--Vancouver; British Columbia--Victoria
Location(s) Facet:
British Columbia--Vancouver; British Columbia--Victoria
Transcript:
VANCOUVER, B. C.,
June 24, 1915.
Honoured Sir :-
I respectfully submit copies of correspondence together with a brief explanatory resume of a matter which has been a source of very considerable annoyance to my Government and the peace of my people within my territory since the beginning of the year 1914. A Chinese newspaper known as "The New Republic" published in the City of Victoria B.C., has so directed its policy against my Government as to promote a third revolution in China by encouraging and receiving cash subscriptions hereto.
Under registered cover of March 2nd, 1915, the original letters of the annexed copies were despatched to Mr. Harry F. Bishop, Postmaster at Victoria, in which you will observe that this matter is detailed and accompanied by my request for his consideration with a view to the submission of his findings to the proper authority and ultimate exclusion [?] of this journal from the privileges of His Majesty' s Mail.
It was only on the twenty-first instant that your Postmaster at Victoria has deigned to give official notice to my request, and this only through the verbal request of a Victoria resident whose services in the matter I had enlisted. In this communication from Mr. Bishop, he only mentions as having forwarded a copy of the offending journal with translation attached, furnished by my office, but makes no mention of my previous letter, or whether the case was being submitted to you with his findings and an explanation of the position I had assumed; hence my enclosures.
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