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BRIEIGH CONSULATE GENEREG 21 AUG 16
BATAVIA.
27th June, 1916.
NO. 129.
sir,
With ra erence to my telegram No. 86 of
the 20th instant I have the honour to enclose copies
of my telegrams to the Vice Consuls at Semarang
and Sourabaya (1) of 18th May instructing them in the
sense of your telegram No. 52 of 12th May regarding the
recommendation for the Statutory List of persons who persist
in exporting sugar that has passed through enemy hands
(2) of 17th June instructing them to warn all Bugar
millers against sales of sugar to firms on the Statutory
List and (3) of 20th instant instructing the Tice Consuls
to issue a similar warning to Chinese to refrain from
buying or selling to such firms.
The telegrams were sent ith the concurrence if Er.
R.W.E. Dalrymple the senior partner here of Messrs Maclaine
Watson with whom I am acting in entire Cooperation,
These definite warnings couched in as friendly
a language as possible, have, I understand, produced
a fesling of relief and made the situation clearer, without
in any way prejudicing the purchase of sugar by the Royal
Commission.
That the previous situation was unsatisfactory is shown
by the enclosed copy of a letter handed me by the Japanese Consul jesty's
Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Office,
LONDON.