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FILE FOREIGN OFFICE,
OUT FILE
(F 4742,16/10)
Dear Usborne,
S.. 1.
18th October, 1940
With reference to your letter MI/5/1 of the 16th October about the Banque Belge pour l'Etranger I enclose copies of
correspondence with the Treasury and Colonial Office, subsequent to our telegram No.929 to
Shanghai of September 20th 1939, which shows that the bank was eventually accepted as non-enemy in Hong Kong.
2. I suggest therefore, that subject to any comments by Young of the Treasury, to whom a copy of this reply is being sent, you can instruct Broadmead to take the same line.
(sa) J Brenan
T.G. Usborne, Esq., Ministry of Economic Warfare.
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