Any jurther communication should be addrowed to-
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY,
at the address given opposite.
The following letter and number should
be quoted :-
Jc. 3068.
Telegraphio Address:
COLASTA, LONDON, Telephone No.: 3840 Victoria.
Gentlemen,
BOARD OF TRADE,
103
RECO
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5586
Res 4 FEB 16
(COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT),
GWYDYR HOUSE,
WHITEHALL,
(Copy).
LONDON, S.W.
2nd February,
1916.
With reference to your application for permission
to obtain goods of Belgian origin with a view to their ship-
ment to Hongkong, I am directed by the Board of Trade to draw
your attention to the Trading with the Enemy Proclamation
of the 16th February, 1915, which extends the provisions of
the Trading with the Enemy Proclamation of the 9th September,
1914, to all territory in the effective military occupation
of an enemy, and in virtue of which it is prohibited to
trade with or pay money to or for the benefit of firms
situated in the occupied part of Belgium, without the express
permission of His Majesty's Government.
The Board of Trade are, however, prepared in
suitable cases and under certain conditions to authorise
firms in this country to obtain and supply goods of Belgian
origin for shipment to Hongkong and they hereby authorise you to obtain and ship such goods, provided (a) that you furnish
to the Colonial Office (1) an undertaking in respect of each
consignment that you will pay the purchase money into a
special account, in the name of the Continental exporter, in
a Bank in the United Kingdom and will when called upon on
behalf of His Majesty's Government furnish evidence of such
payment within a reasonable period, and (ii) an undertaking by the Bank that, so long as the enemy occupation of Belgium
Messrs. Hamel & Horley Ltd.,
continue
London House,
Crutched Friars, E.C.
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