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FROM PRIORITY HONG KONG
TO CWEALTH OFFICE
TEL NO. 239
24 FEBRUARY 1900
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CONFIDENTIAL. ADDRESSED C.O. TELEGRAM 239 OF 24 FEBRUARY REPEATED
PEKING.
GIFT OF RICE FROM CHINA.
F9MY TELEGRAM 55 TO PEKING.
THE DIRECTOR OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY HAS INTERVIEWED THE CHINA
RESOURCES COMPANY ON TWO OCCASIONS. THE COMPANY WAS ADAMANT THAT
THE RICE COULD NOT BE BROUGHT INTO THE COLONY UNDER THE QUOTA
SYSTEM. WE INDICATED THAT WE WOULD BE PREPARED TO ALLOW 300 TONS
TO BE BROUGHT INTO THE COLONY OUTSIDE THE QUOTA SYSTEM BUT THIS WAS
NOT ACCEPTED. THE CHINA RESOURCES COMPANY HAS SENT IN AN APPLICATION,
USING MOST OBJECTIONABLE LANGUAGE, FOR A LICENCE TO IMPORT RICE. IN
VIEW OF THE LANGUAGE THIS APPLICATION HAS BEEN REFUSED.
2. THERE MAY BE ATTEMPTS TO BRING THE RICE INTO THE COLONY WITHOUT
OBTAINING PERMISSION AND ACTION TO MEET THIS EVENTUALITY IS NOW
BEING CONSIDERED.
F.O. PLEASE PASS PRIORITY PEKING 75.
SIR D. TRENCH
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