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CONFIDENTI
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
HONGKONG.
20
19th August, 1914.
Sir,
I have the honour to transmit the enclosed paraphrases and translations of the cypher and code telegrams received from you and addressed to you
by me regarding the stock of sugar available for export from the colony in view of the shortage of that commodity in the United Kingdom.
2. On receipt of your telegram of the 7th instant I instituted enquiries and ascertained that the stocks held by local merchants was negligible but that one of the two local refineries held 3,000 tons of sugar in stock and that both together could, provided regular supplies of raw sugar from Jaya, were maintained, produce 550 tons per day for export. I telegraphed accordingly on the 12th instant.
3. Immediately on receipt of your telegram of the 14th instant I interviewed the managing agents of the two refineries and was then informed that although the 3,000 tons of sugar referred to in my first telegram might in emergency be shipped to England it was not considered likely that it would travel well. The opinion was expressed by both agents that only hard crystal sugar of which the refineries produce little in normal circumstances would travel sufficiently well to England to make it worth His Majesty's Government while to ship it.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
Both
LEWIS HARCOURT,M.P.
&c. &c. &c.
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