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of sugar
available for Export.
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HONGKONG.
KEC
36706
REGE 25 SEP 14
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
19th August, 1914.
Creator
sir,
I have the honour to transmit the enclosed para- phrases and translations of the cypher and code telegrams received from you and addressed to you by me regarding the stock of sugar available for export from the Colony in view of a shortage of that
commodity in the United Kingdom.
2.
On receipt of your telegram of the 7th instant I
instituted enquiries and ascertained that the stocks held by local
merchants was negligible but that one of the two local refineries
held 3,000 tons of sugar in stock and that both together could,
provided regular supplies of raw sugar from Java were maintained,
produce 550 tons per day for export. I telegraphed accordingly 39984 on the 8th instant. "Areulas
3.
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Immediately on receipt of your telegram of the 14th
instant I interviewed the managing agents of the two refineries
and was then informed that although the 3,000 tons of sugar referred to in my first telegram might in emergency be shipped to England it was not considered likely that it would travel well.
The opinion was expressed by both agents that only hard crystal
sugar of which the refineries produce little in normal circum-
stances would travel sufficiently well to England to make it worth
His Majesty's Government while to ship it. Both refineries are
willing to refine this class of sugar and I telegraphed in this
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
80..
&C..
&c.
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