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REG 21 MAY 15

The Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of

State for the Colonies.

(Received, Colonial Office, 6.5 p.m.20th May, 1915).

Your telegram of 18th May Indigo and dyestuffs are practically those referred to in my telegram of 1st May with very small additional

quantity from non-British Ports. Articles not speci- fically named coalsacks, horseshoes, leather cattle- food, pigskins, telephone apparatus, dynamite, detonators, cartridges, hempcloth, meat, except Australian frozen meat, sodium nitrate. These articles and those referred to in my telegram 21st April chiefly come from China partly from non British ports some in local retail export trade may be from British ports but consignments for such trade are mixed by passing through various hands and it is becoming impossible to trace origin. Dynamite comes from England. In last paragraph of your telegram chief exports to all six places are oil products and scrap metal but very small quantities of any

of the articles enumerated may go to any of these places. With reference to your telegram of 4th May, may I apply your permission for transhipment of cargo from non British ports to goods from same ports which have been stored here temporarily and which may change hands here.

MAY.