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REGE 21 OCT 15

Board of Trade,

503

(Commercial Department)

Gwydyr House,

Whitehall,

London, S.W.

23rd July, 1915.

I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknow-

ledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th June,

No. 90533, relative to the employment of German agents

in the Far East by British Insurance Companies, and

to state, for Sir E. Grey's information, that on

receipt of your letter of the 23rd June, No. 79239,

enclosing copy of a memorandum on this subject prepared

by the Commercial Attaché to His Majesty's Embassy at

Tokio, copies of the memorandum were sent to the Com-

panies represented at the Conference which took place

with the Board of Trade last lovember, with a state-

ment that His Majesty's Government shared the views

therein expressed, and that they trusted that the

Companies concerned would now part with the German

agents.

I am to add that as regards China, the matter has

of course been settled by the recent Proclamation pro-

hibiting trade with persons of enemy nationality in

China, Siam, Persia and Morocco.

I have &c.,

(Signed) H. Fountain,

be Under Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

S.W.