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Any further communication should be
addressed to-
THE SECRETARY.
at the address given opposite.
The following letters and number must be quoted:-
W.T.D.
7776/16.
Letters will be dealt with more expedi tionsly if they relate to one application only,
Telegrams:-
WARTRADE, VIC, LONDON,
28909
¡Rec°
WAR TRADE AFFARINIENO,
4, CENTRAL BUILDINGS,
296
WESTMINSTER, S.W.
19th June, 1916,
Me
gir,
I am instructed by the Director of the War Trade
Department to acknowledge the receipt of your letters
Goo of the 33rd May, No. 23689/16 and of the 9th June, No.
36197/16, on the subject of the export of Chinese wiça
from Hong Kong to Japan, and to state that a new system
is about to be introduced by which mica will only be allowed
to be exported from this country and India to firme in
Japan who have been approved by H.M, Ambassador at Tokio,
and who have signed the appropriate guarantees.
I am,
to auggest for the consideration of Mr Secretary Bonar
Law, that it would be desirable that the export of
mica from Hong Kong to Japan, should only be allowed
under the same conditions.
Drafts of the guarantees which, subject to Sir 0.
Greene's approval, it is proposed to exact, were transmitted
to you by the Foreign Office on the let instant in their
letter no. 100400/X.
If this suggestion be accepted, the name of any
Japanese firm desirous of importing mica from Hong Kong
would be submitted to H, M, Ambassador at Tokio, the export
would only be allowād after the Governor of Hong Kong had
been notified by H.M.Ambassador that the firm was approved
and had signed the appropriate form of guarantee, and the
mica would be consigned to a British Consular Officer
for the account of the importing firm, subsequent
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