CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914 — Page 431

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Ref. No. 4879.

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BOARD OF TRADE 1508 55 Whitelad,

17 DEC 1914)

REG: 4

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5th December 1914.

424

With further reference to your letter (M.74939/14)

of the 27th November, transmitting a copy of a telegram from His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokio with regard to the

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position of British insurance/e agents in Japan under the Trading with the Enemy Proclamation of the 8th October, I am directed by the Board of Trade to state, for the information of Sir E. Grey, that the Insurance Companies, notwithstanding the strong representations which have been mads to them, are reluctant to discontinue the employment

of German agents abroad.

I am to enclose a copy of a Kemorandum on the subject of the lst December submitted by the representatives of the Insurance Companies which Sir E. Grey may perhaps think might with advantage be sent to His Majesty's Ambassador

at Tokio.

I have the Honour to be,

Bir,

Your obedient servant,

The Under Secretary of State,

Foreign offion,

8. W.