| Show MR MAGRUM PROVES IlLS HIS CASE Produces Envelopes Opened and I Endorsed by British Censor CensorI i I I OF MAIL MAJI IS HELD IELI Slate Circular eer Je Pc ot or um lii In New York Feb Feu 20 special to 10 the Journal and Advertiser from ton tan says Charlas n ii Macrum late consul It at Pretoria furnishes proof of It his hll charge that U S mal was f on opened by bythe bythe the British censor Mr lass has several each bunc bearing the sticker applied to the envelope loll I after I It had be been opened b by the onrIe censor Ie lie has hns one envelope which contained mail matter from Consul General Stowe at Capetown I It ts is the regulation blue ot of the consular service I It bears upon Is its rac face the leond legend t 1 S Consular I Service Berlee and a stamp Mal Suspend c ad On the reverse Me It is the U S government II seal impressed upon the red sealing wax ot of the serl service e eThe The British sticker the tho letter after I ii had bon been opened br bears the po initials V H It as al wel well as aK the Initials of the clerk who opened the let letter ter em and the name of the place lace where I it was 01 opened This leter letter was waB mailed nt at Capetown October b by Consul Stowe I It was 11 hei there one month apparent apparently I ly for this the nOt next Is that ot of Durban date dated Xoy Noy From Durham Durban I it WI was sent ent to Pretoria arid and readied Mr Ir Macrum In It its I mutilated form The t to consuls issued by bythe bythe the not In ii themselves im but nevertheless mal never rech reached Mr They were without apology or aton by the censor As tr for Mr Ir ot of I it personal he never hear The he British authorities ar are tar lar with the Insular code On November Ur Mr Macrum sent sont IL a cablegram In co code to suite ment urgently requesting that ho he be Permitted to come borne Huat cn ca ruse or of th the In limos South Aria Africa and this country consumed two days II in trans Is to 1 itay the cable sent nt by Mr on omi No Now S 8 would normally have ben been received b by the state deport bent ment on 00 No Nov But Dut on Nov Nor before the cablegram was wal received b by bythe the state certainly and b be before rote fore I it Vl rena south uth probably the British papers tn in Natal hundreds or of mie miles aI announced In typo that Mr 11 Macrum the consul at Pretoria delre desired to 10 be permitted to go home |
