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A. Not app wood by the Commillee of Management of the CF the Co
1/16/42
As the Foreign Office are aware, the Kailan Vining Admin-
istration is the name given to an organisation which administers
the property of The Chinese Engineering and Wining Company in China
a British Company registered in London and the property of the
House Club, Lanchow kining Company - a Chinese Company registered in Tientsin.
ई.
Soh Janies St
SM
The two Companies entrust the managementto joint General
Kanagers, one appointed by each Company. It is not clear what the
expression "les administrateurs" is to be taken to mean in the tele-
but the ordinary meaning of that expression
gram dated
used in connection with the affairs of the Kailan kining Adsinistra-
tion would be the Joint General kanagers
the other a Chinese citizen.
one a British subject,
It is, in any event, these two men on whom the burden of
taking decisions in the present extremely difficult circumstances
lies, and no doubt both of them are by this time aware of the advice
given in the F.0.'s telegram dated
as to the considerations
which they should have before them in directing the Administration's
affairs.
There can, of course, be no possible question but that it
would in present circumstances be unpatriotic either for a British
subject or a Chinese citizin to do anything voluntarily which would
assist Japan.
This is indeed so obvious that it may safely be
presumed that it has been in the minds of the Joint General Kanagers
since the outbreak of hostilities between Great Britain and that
The point on which the Genera Managers and the employees
country.
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