C. D. 1500
15/12/16
Rohson
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Communications on this subject
Bould be addressed to
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,
COLONIAL OFFICE,
and the following
Number quoted.
LONDON, S.W.,
J. P. Garnett 155
15/17. Dir
Ind
Gentlemen,
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803
Downing Street.
18 Dec.
1916
I am directed by M. Secretary Boner Las to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the /2′′
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I'm addressed to the Trade Department 13F- quiring whather there is any objection to your
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man payment to hissu Wai mes Hong of Hougtong from the funds of hesser Gordon Ferreira & Co ( in liquidation) and to exfiain that the Trading with the knemy ItenK- 10
of Powers) Act does not apply to trading conducted by firms in this country with firms in the Colonies and Protectorates.
2. Enemy firms in Colonies not possessing r68- ponsible Government and Protectorates have in panoral be. : liquidated, and there is no objection to trading with firms who are still permitted to carry on business in those Colonies and in Protectorates.
I am.
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant, ("igned) G. GRINDLE