The Archive · 1938

Registered Letter Case

Signed (Mrs) Wex Waxc SHU-MIEN

Mrs. Wen, first of all, is not very accurate in her dates, only one date having been correctly given.

All her letters, some very impertinent, have been duly answered. The last one dated November 7 is appended hereunder, which will explain matters:

With reference to' your letters of the 29th and Sist ultimo, and your calling on our Local Business Department, concerning a ' registered letter No. 10870. posted at Peiping and addressed to jB EIEH, care of P.O. Box No. 640. Shanghai I am directed to inform you that investigations made reveal that the registered letter in question could not be delivered at the address of which you had notified this office, because you omitted the Lane name (3B) or number (1235) in your application for redirection of cor-Téspondence, and was consequently returned to ihe office or origin. How. ever, the Peiping Post Office has been requested "to reforward the letter to Shanghai, and same will be delivered to you as soon as it is received.

In order to facilitate our sorting staff to redirect all your correspondence to your present address, please fill in the enclosed fresh application for redirection of correspondence with detailed particulars called for therein and return it to this office for attention duly signed he was unable to drown because of his swimming ability when he had jumped into a river. He said that he gave up the idea of suicide and went to New Orleans, then to California.

His wife, he said, he understood, had remarried.

Since arriving in California he said that he had married again and has been a father to sons for ten and one-half years.

He refused io answer questions whether he had remarried without divorcing his first wife.

Agents of the F.B.I. said. that he had not violated any Federal laws.—United Press.

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