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W.T.D.322207.
(142100)
WAR TRADE DEPARTMENT,
4. CENTRAL BUILDINGS,
WESTMINSTER, S.W.
30th September, 1915.
15
sir,
1
With reference to your letters of September
14th, No.127588 and September 18th, No.131845, I
am instructed by the Director of the War Trade
Department to state that no objection is seen by
this Department to the suggestion made by the
Board of Customs and Excise in the 3rd paragraph of
their letter of the 7th September. The suggestions
contained in that letter have to some extent been
modified by the recent issue of the China White List,
but pending the inclusion of the native firms hither-
to supplied with drugs and similar commodities from
this country the licences for such goods will be made
out in the name of a British firm on account of the
Chinese native purchaser.
I am to request that in due course this Depart -
ment may be furnished with a list of the firms
hitherto supplied by Messrs. Evans Sons Lescher and
Webb. Similar lists will be obtained by this
Department in the case of other chemists.
I have, &c.,
The Under Secretary of State,
&c., &c., &c..
Foreign Office.
(Signed)
N. J. Highmore.