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BREED ALL COMMUNICATIONS CHAIRMAN.**
TRADE CLEARING HOUSE,
TRADE CLEARING HOUSE]| REG 17 APR 16
BROADWAY house,
TOTHILL STREET,
WESTMINSTER, S.W.
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TES: 2011.01517.
14th April 1916.
The Chairman of the Trade Clearing House
presents his Compliments to
The Under becretary of State, Colonial Office, and begs to submit the annexed papers which may
prove of interest
Memorandum on Transit Letter 01517 from the German Consul, shanghai to the Foreign Office,berlin, presenting a scheme for establishing a central German merchant firm in East Asia, through. which German exporters may sell their goods after the war.
It is thought that the Australian authorities would perhaps be interested to know of this scheme.
Similar communications
have been sent to: -
Foreign Office.
Admiralty, Trade Division. War Office.
Mar
Board of Trade.
Board of Customs and Excise. Restrictions of Enemy
Supplies Committee. Chief Cable Censor. Chief Postal Censor. Board of Agriculture. Colonial Office. India Office.
War Trade Department.
200 W10.99-284. 250. 7/15. Op.133. A.LE. W.
1, 036. 250. 9/18.