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J. H. Kemp, Esq.,
Attorney-General,
Hongkong.
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I have pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of your letter of November 28th. in reply to my enquiry of November 25th. concerning the course of the Colonial Government with respect to the shipment of rubber from neutral countries to the United States or other neutral countries by way of Hongkong and wish to thank you for the careful manner in which the matter has been presented to this office.
I regret that the position of the colonial govern- -ment as set forth in your letter seems to make the forwarding of rubber by way of the colony impracticable.
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The colonial government will doubtless appreciate fact that safety and certainty are prime considerations in routing shipments of rubber or any other product at this time. Thile shipments from Java to the United States, for example, there can be no question of enemy ownership or destination involved it is not enough for shippers of rubber to know that their product would probably be released in case it passed through Hongkong and was the subject of official action here. So long as other routes are open, as is the case, they have no occasion to run any such risk in Hongkong. This is especially the case in view of the uncertainty of the government as to action it may take in the future as indicat- -ed in the closing paragraph of your letter. Apparently it would be practicable to pass all such goods passing from neutral countries. such as the Dutch East Indies or the Philippines, to neutral
countries, such as the United States, on through bills of lading.
Such an arrangement would relieve the trade of much uncertainty and
in fact would not differ in principle or practice from shipments
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