PATERSON, SIMONS & CO LTD
LONDON, SINGAPORE, PENANG
AND
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
TELEGRAMS,
PATERSON-FEN - LONDON.
PATERSON-SINGAPORE
PATERSON-PENANG
CODES.
Western UNION
UNIVERSAL
BROONHALL'S STANDARD PREMIER
रह
London House,
Crutched Friars,
462
London
4th May,
1916.
BENTLEY'S
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The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
21141
REC REGP 4 MAY 16
S. F.
Sir.
REFERENCE NO.19815/1916.
We have your favour of the 3rd instant, and we thank you
for agreeing to release the 600 Bags of Pepper now lying in Hongkong
for shipment to Mesara.S.L.Jones & Co., San Francisco. We shall
be pleased to give the undertaking for which you ask, and we have
this morning cabled to our Singapore Firm instructing them not to
ship in future without first obtaining a through permit from the
Governor of the Straits Sottlements.
We will refund to you
your telegraphic expenses.
we are,
sir,
Your Obedient Servants,
FOR PATERSON, SIMONS & CO LTD
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Managing DiragtOZ.
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