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DRAFT.
C. D. R. 1 SEP.
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The Under Secretary of State,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
F.0. 41037/Hong Kong.
رکه
Sir.
Downing Street.
512
September, 1916.
MINUTE.
Mr. Beckett, 1/9/16.
Mr. Robinson,
Mr.
Mr. Grindle.
Mr. Lambert.
Air. Read.
Sir G. Fiddes.
Mr. Steel-Mailland.
Mr. Bomar Law.
(23438)
I am directed by Er.Secretary
Bonar Law to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter ho. 161970/X/1916 of the 29th
August transmitting a copy of a Note from
the French Chargé d'Affaires, and to
request that you will invite the attention
of Viscount Grey of Fallodon to the letter
from this Department of the 22nd of lay
from which it will be seen that the
Governor of Hong Kong was informed on
the 17th of May that he might allow the
trans-shipment to France of silk and
silk waste from China, which it is
presumed is the silk referred to by
the
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