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With reference, to your letter No.29972/16 of June 30th concerning a shipment of rubber tyres from the United States to Batavia detained at Hong Kong, I am directed by Lord R. Cecil to state, for the information of Mr. Secretary Bonar Law, that he has obtained the following particulars of the consignment in question:-
One Box containing four motor-car tyres and four
inner tubes, gross weight one hundred and seventy-five lbs, net, one hundred lbs.- value eighty-one dollars fifty cents
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consigned by Montgomery Ward and Company of Chicago to
Benkoelen, Ned.-Ind. In-en Uitvoer Handel Maatschappij Sumatra. The goods were carried by the C.M. and St. P.
The agent of the Railway and Osaka Shosen Kalsha. carrying companies informed the consignors of the detention of the goods at Hong Kong on May 12th.
I am to request that Mr. Bonar Law will be good enough to enquire by telegraph as to the detention of these goods which it has been suggested by the Admiralty may be due to failure on the part of the consignors to comply with Clause 5 of the Rubber agreement which they have signed. Under this clause it is necessary. to furnish His Majesty's Consul at the port of shipment with
particulars
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.