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advantage in it;
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ter is ovelled in
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that I can
why their produce should be
exemplest from
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31.10.15
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TELEGRAM from the Officer Administering the of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for
Dated 29th October, 1918.
C O
153
men
Colonies. Rrat 30 OCT 18
(Received Colonial Office, 11.15 p.m. 29th October, 1918)
20 49260.
6.a.9. 50583.
October Chamber of Commerce joins wita me in urging most strongly that arrangements as to tin should not apply to HongKong. HongKong is merely a centre for transhipment and it is not a producing country. If maximum price fixed there is grave danger of Chinese Yunnan tin which now passes through Hongkong en route for various destinations being diverted overland at heavy loss to colony. It should be sufficient to fix price in consuming markets instead of in part of transit. Financial control over MBK here negligible at present.
SEVERN.