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Any further communication on the subject, please quote
No.
and address
95252/45x.
The Controller,
Foreign Trade Department.
Telephone: Gerrard 8640.
Sir,
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FOREIGN TRADE DEPARTMENT,
C. 5.
LANCASTER HOUSE,
60763
ST. JAMES,
REGE DEC 15
REC.
18th December 1916.
S.W.
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Balfour to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th instant
(33831/1916) dealing with the questions arising out of the
removal and forfeiture at Hong Kong of a shipment of wood
tar on the 8.9. "Hokuta Maru".
In reply to the seqen paragraph of your
letter Mr. Balfour does not desire to dissent from the view
that in the circumstances no action of the nature suggested
MO in the last paragraph of the letter from this Department of 507521
the 23rd October, is at present necessary.
Mr. Balfour is, however, advised that in the
case of goods which are the property of firms on the Statutory
List, forfeiture of such goods, either under Section 11 of
Ordinance 22 of 1915 or even under any further ordinance which
might be passed to deal with the difficulty referred to in the
second paragraph of the letter from this Department of the 9th
November, would be inconsistent with international law.
I am to add, although the question does not
strictly arise out of the case under consideration, that Mr.
Balfour is advised that the forfeiture even of goods whion be-
long to a person or body of persons who is an "enemy" in the
strict sense under Britis.. law cannot, compatibly with
MO 53831
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The Under-Secretary of State,
COLONIAL OFFICE.
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