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In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No. 14663/X/1138.
and address,
I
bet to-
not to any person by name,
"The Under-Secretary of Stato,”
Foreign Office,
5143
London, 8.W.1.
Sir:-
REC!
C O
5201
REA 30 JAN 181
FOREIGN OFFICE
S.W. 1.
January 29
1918.
I am directed by Lord Robert Cecilto acknow-
ledge the receipt of your letters Nos.3206/1918
For and 4056/1918 or the 22nd. and 23rd. instant
respectively, relative to the temporary suspension of licences for exports to Japan.
2. In reply I am to refer to the Foreign
Office letter No.14611/X of the 25th. instant and
say that it is presumed that the list of firms which have signed the guarantee against re-export
to Russia communicated by His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokio, in his telegram No.61, a copy of which was enclosed in that letter, has been communicated to
the Governor of Hong Kong. Instructions have been
sent to Sir C.Greene to telegraph direct to Hong Kong all additions to this list.
3. With regard to the question asked by the Governor of Hong Kong as to whether he may be
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial office.
authorized