The Secretaries
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hes 27 SEP
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FOREIGN OFFICE,
September 18th, 1905.
Gentlemen:-
On the receipt of your letter of the 13th
instant, a telegram was addressed to His Majesty's
Minister at Peking informing him that renewed repre-
sentations had been received from the British and
American Tobacco Company, Limited, calling attention
to the reported boycotting of the Company's goods at
Canton, and suggesting that it might be a matter for
unofficial action on the part of Sir E. Satow.
I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne
to inform you that it appears from Sir E. Satow's re-
ply which has just been received that he is not in
possession of sufficiently detailed information to
enable him to take any steps in the matter, but Sir
E. Satow suggests however that the best plan would be
that the Company's Representative at Hongkong should
supply full information on the subject to His Majes-
to the British and American Tobacco Company,
Cecil Chambers,
86, Strand, W.C.
ty's