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                 N.B.— This form must accompany any inquiry respecting this Telegram.     POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS.      If the Receiver of an Inland Telegram doubts its accuracy, he may have it repeated on payment of half the<lb/>amount originally paid for its transmission, any fraction of 1 d. less than 1/2 d.being reckoned as 1/2 d.; and if it be found that there was any<lb/>inaccuracy, the amount paid for repetition will be refunded. Special conditions are applicable to the repetition of Foreign Telegrams.<lb/>s.d.<lb/>Charges to pay     Office Stamp<lb/><seg type="unclear">KNIGHTSBRIDGE.R.O. S.W.</seg><lb/>14 JY<lb/>16     Office of Origin and Service Instructions.<lb/>Cavan<lb/>Handed Received<lb/>in at 11'40 a.M.  here at 1'39 p.m      TO Saunderson 5 Wilton Place Ldn    Monaghan have confirmed Belfast resolutions<lb/>and send copy of it<lb/>and your letter and mine<lb/>to Carson see him and<lb/>say this was done without<lb/>our authority Blackley 
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