Any further communication
on the subject, please quote
No.
75414/45X.
Luddress-
The Controller,
Foreign Trade Department.
Telephone: Gerrard 8640.
43735
REC
REG 13 SEP 16
475
FOREIGN TRADE DEPARTMENT,
LANCASTER HOUSE,
ST. JAMES,
S.W.
Th
September 12 1916.
sir,
I am directed by Viscount Grey of Fallodon
to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 7th inst., (4087/1916) enclosing copy of a despatch which has been sent to the Governor of Hong Kong relative to the detention at that port of 7 cases of machinery consigned by Messrs. Mirrlees, Bickerton & Day Ltd.,
to the Cooper Co. of Manila.
With regard to the second paragraph of your letter under acknowledgement I am to request you to inform the Secretary of State for the Colonies that the last paragraph of the letter from this Department of the 28th ultimo (71468/45X) was intended to refer
to goods shipped from all ports, whether in the United Kingdom or in Allied or neutral countries,
I am,
he Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
Downing Street,
Whiteball.
sir,
Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
Mating an
CONTROLLER.
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