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prohibited imports, unless the penalty inflicted on the British firm involved by the stoppage of goods already manufactured
would be in undue proportion to that
inflicted on the Dutch firm.
I am,etc.
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Confectantial
Downing Street,
30 October, 1918.
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DRAFT.
THE CONTROLLER,
FOREIGN TRADE DEPARTMENT.
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Mr. Dixon
Mr.
Mr.
Mr. Grindle.
Mr. Lambert.
Sir H. Road.
Sir G. Fiddes.
Mr. Hewing.
Mr. Long.
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I am directed by Mr. Secretary Long
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th of October, with regard to dealings with the Hong Kong branch of the Handels Maatschappij Transmarina which is included in
Class A of the General Black List.
2.
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Mr.Long concurs generally in Mr. Balfour's views, and he has asked the Director of the War Trade Department to refuse licences for the exportation to the Hong Kong branch of this firm of any, goods exported from this country which are in Class A of the prohibited- export list, and any goods transhipped in this country which are either in Class A of the
prohibited export list or in the list of
prohibited imports, subject to the proviso mentioned at the end of the fourth paragraph.
of your letter,
3. Mr. Long proposes to warn any firms who apply to this Department that it is con- sidered undesirable that they should accept
orders for shipment to the Hong Kong branch of
He does not think it desirable
the firm.
to interfere with any goods actually shipped to the Hong Kong branch, but it seems to him
that
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