It is interesting, as showing how an error might have occurred, to know that it might have resulted from an incorrect filling in of the slips which are sent accompanying registered letters. For example, New York would enter particulars of the letters on a covering slip, when sending them to San Francisco at the latter place, when the mail was again handled, fresh slips would be made out, containing the came particulars, to accompany the letters on the further stage of their journey. Ib would only require clerical error in the shape of a wrongly inserted destination on the slip to divert the letters from their Proper course to some post office other than the one intended. In the case of China the letters would then naturally pass into the hands of the postal administration which handled the mail at that wrong destination, and they would forward it to the correct. address, While the above is merely a suggestion as to how the letters in the case complained of may have rome into the custody of the German authorities, the fact that they
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.