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Enclosure 5.
American Consular Service.
Hongkong, December 22, 1914.
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J. H. Kemp, Esq.,
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Attorney-General, Hongkong.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 21st. December, 1914, in regard to the exportation of rubber from neutral countries to the United States.
If the statement of policy contained in your letter herein acknowledged can be so far modified that the expression "without transhipment" can be changed to the expression "on through bill of lading" I think our people would be quite willing to undertake shipments this way.. I do not think the legal position of the goods would be changed by this change of expression so far as their neutral nature is concerned. Our customs and other rul-
-ings in the United States on this matter establish a shipment on through bill of lading, even where the goods pass from one vessel
to another in a foreign port, as a direct shipment.
I may say in this connection that I have been inform-
ed by the Consul at Batavia that arrangements have been made for
a direct line of stemmers from Java to the United States by way of the Suez Canal and this line will take from Hongkong trade route
a considerable amount of business which it has enjoyed heretofore.
It seems to me that it is important that everything possible should
be done to retain Hongkong's hold upon such business.
I have etc..
(Sd.) George E. Anderson,
Consul-General.
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