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Enclosure/
Gentlemen,
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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 11th December, 1914.
With reference to your letters of the 28th and 30th November and the 1st December, addressed to the Attorney General, I am directed to say that the conditions upon which alone you will be permitted to continue your business in this Colony during the
war are as follows :-
(a)
That you will not without specific permission deal in any goods manufactured in or coming
from any factory or establishment in enemy territory; and
(b) That you will remit no money out of the Colony
without permission.
If in any case goods are required locally which cannot be supplied at all by any purely British firm or which cannot be supplied in time by any such firm, the Government will be prepared to consider an application for permission to import such goods from the stocks of your Shanghai office.
I regret that permission cannot be given to import
the lamps referred to in your letter of the 28th November.
With regard to the order placed by your Canton office with Berlin, I am to point out no British subject may deal
in goods coming from an enemy country.
The two powers of Attorney enclosed in your letter of the 28th September are returned herewith.
I am, etc.,
(SD.) Claud Severn
Colonial Secretary.
Messrs. Siemens China Co.