File No. 841.711/1485
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
London,
November 8, 1916, 6 p. m.
[Received 10 p. m.]
[Received 10 p. m.]
5134. Your 3940, October 14, 6 p. m. I have just received detailed information which is too complicated to condense into a short telegram.1 I am forwarding it by pouch, but give following approximate replies to your questions seriatim:
- (1)
- About 250.
- (2)
- At Strand House, London.
- (3)
- The receiving and dispatching staff can deal with 250 bags an hour; the goods examiners can deal with 350 bags a day; the trade-letter examiners can deal with about 500 pounds of letters a day; the private-note-letter examiners can deal with about 150 pounds of letters a day. The average number of trade letters to the pound may be given very roughly at 20, and of private letters at 60.
In reply to the confidential last paragraph of your telegram, I have no means of forming an accurate judgment which would depend on the degree of supervision you might desire of the work of some 250 persons.
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