CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 254

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In any further communication

on the subject, please quote

No.

and address

118289/15.

Tho Under Socretary of State,

Foreign Offeç.

London.

Sir:-

Rec

C.O

40432

REG 2 CEP 15

FOREIGN OFFICE

243

September 1915.

I am directed by Secretary Sir E.Grey to

acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.38189 of

August 23rd. transmitting copy of telegraphic

correspondence with the Governor of Hong Kong relative

to the proposal to require landing certificates in

the case of prohibited goods exported from Hong Kong.

The form of certificate proposed by His Excellency

the Governor in his telegram of the 18th. August would

make it encumbent upon a Consular Officer to give a

personal guarantee (a) that the goods in question had

been duly landed (b) that they would be consumed in

a particular place.

With reference to point (b) I am to transmit a

copy of a circular telegram to His Majesty's

Representatives in accordance with which Consuls have

now been instructed to refuse to give any guarantee

of

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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