B.R.
COPY.
Dear Sir,
ENFGY TRADING.
Semarang, 31st May 1916.
With further reference to
this matter, in terms of your letter of 25/4/16, Erdmann & Sielcken were entered in the Black List since 26/3/18, so that any business transacted with them prior to that date was allowed.
As already advised you this restriction has its advantages in that merchants who speculate
in sugar incur the risk of being unknowingly implicated in the danger of trading with the
enemy firmS.
To keep away from being entered in the black list the only course opened to me was to buy from the Mills and stopped buying any more Blank Sales which were offered at 1.11) at that time.
The price today is P.14. - so that my loss is practically a little over £2,000,000 (two million guilders).
I hear privately that Messrs McNeill & Co and Fraser, Eaton & Co. are receiving sugar which have passed through enemy firms. If such deling is still encouraged by British Houses I fail to understand why others should be prevented. For this reason I respectfully beg that you will please consult with the British Consul General for N.L. on this subject and by s doing you will be safe-guarding the interests of Japanese subjects in this Colony.
I append herewith a copy of a notification
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