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ALBERT GATE,

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LONDON,

W.

2nd February 1912.

Dear Sir Edward Grey: -

My London Firm has had an enquiry from a

Continental House as to whether they will take a shipment

of 70,000 rifles and 7,000,000 cartridges from a Contin-

ental port to Hong Kong via Cape of Good Hope, so avoid-

ing any interference from Italian or Turkish authorities

or ships of war if proceeding viê Mediterranean and Suez

Canal.

My object in addressing you is to ascertain if

an English shipowner is at liberty to convey, and land

at Hong Kong, mmitions of war in view of the civil war

in China.

Your early reply will be much appreciated by

Yours very truly,

(Signed)

Right Honourable

Sir Edward Grey, Bart., M.P.,

&c.,

&c.,

&c.

R.P.Houston.