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In any further communication on this subject, please quote
No. F 3382/1/10
and address-
not to any person by name
but to-
"
'The Under-Secretary of State,"
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.1.
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Foreign Office.
S.W.1.
RECEIVED 13th June, 1940.
Sir,
Copy, BHK
2
I am directed by Viscount Halifax to acknowledge your letter 54052/40 of the 7th June and to inform you that he concurs in the reply which Lord Lloyd proposes to send to the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong.
2. Lord Halifax trusts that the Hong Kong authorities will continue to be cautious and non-commital in any further communications which they may have to make to the Commissioner of Customs on the subject of smuggling kerosene oil and other commodities into Chinese territory.
ioxyt B/J-
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Ashley Clarke
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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Mr. C. J. Jeffries.
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Secretary of State.
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THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE.
FOREIGN OFFICE.
Fr. Gov. No. 195
22. 4.1940
(1)
FURTHER ACTION.
Copy with enclosure
to Board of Trade.
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Sir,
3 June
Downing Street,
7 June
May, 1940.
am
I have etc., to transmit
to you to be laid before Viscount
Halifax a copy of a despatch from
1
the Governor of Hong Kong reporting
that representations have been
made to the Hong Kong Government
by the Commissioner of Chinese
Maritime Customs for Kowloon and
District regarding the smuggling
of kerosene oil and other commodities
The Colony
from Bong Kong into the Mirs Bay
districts.
2.
It appears to the S. of S.
that as a matter of law Hong Kong
is under no obligation to impose
special measures to assist the Chinese Customs to make effective
the ban which the Chinese Government
has imposed on the importation of
kerosene oil, and that as a matter
the
Gove
of neighbourliness/Hong Kong/can fairly take into account the very
extensive importations into China
which are made under the aegis of
the
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