CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8] — Page 307

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Sir,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd. July, 1915.

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In reply to your letter of the 29th. ultimo, I

am directed to inform you that the persons and firms mentioned in your letter fall into three categories as follows! -

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(a). British subjects who having been employees of

German Firms are now carrying on agencies formerly held by such firms. These persons have been licensed to trade and carry on on their own account such agencies under specifio conditions and with the knowledge and consent of the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

(b). British subjects who were trading on their ow

account before the internment or deportation of enemy subjects of German nationality. (o). Neutral firma.

In each and every case the Hongkong Government which is fully alive to the necessity of preventing any breach of the conditions under which licences to trade have been issued or of the law relating to trading with the enemy, has taken and will continue to take, adequate steps to prevent such breaches.

The shipping of cargo of shemy origin viâ

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neutral ports to Hongkong is a transaction which the mactment relating to the fumishing of certificates of origin is designed to prevent, and the Governor is in correspondence with the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject of the working of that enactment in relation to cargo shipped through Netherlands-India.

Under present instructions, however, it is not

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The Honourable

Mr. E. A. Hoewett, C.M.G.