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(F 9487/1881/10)
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The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs presents his compliments to the Secretary
to the Board of Trade, and, with reference to the letter from the Board of the 26th August, is directed by the Secretary of State to inform him that no objection la seen to the issue of a licence for the export of the goods to which the application No. 2.L. 256477 enclosed
therein relates.
2.
The goods in question, being for the use of
the Shanghai Municipal Council and therefore for the defence of the International Settlement, the Secretary of State is of the opinion that the countersignature of the Chinese Ambassador is not requirod.
FOREIGN OFFICE, S.V.1.
29th August, 1939.
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