CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2] — Page 483

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Attorney-General office,

Hongkong, 27th. November, 1914.

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In reply to your letter of the 25th. November, I am instructed to say that the situation has altered somewhat since your last enquiry on this subject, as motor tyre rubber" is now absolute cotraband, and is also one of the articles which may not be exported from the Colony without the permission of His Excel- -lency the Governor.

There will however ordinarily be no difficulty in ob- -taining such permission provided:-

(a) the rubber has not come from enemy territory, (b) is not enemy property, and

(a) is not contraband by reason of its ultimate and real

destination.

With regard to the effect of destination on the question of contraband, I would refer you to both the Declaration of London and to Notification No. 442 published in the Hongkong Gazette of the 11th. November, 1914.

The above is as accurate a statement of the preset position as can be given in general terms, but the Government can-

-not bind themselves not to adopt a different policy hereafter.

I have etc..

(8d.) J. H. Keap,

Attorney-General.

George E. Anderson, Esq.,

Consul General,

of the United States at Hongkong.