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CHINA
TRADE AND TREATY,
Paraphrase of Telegram.
To Sir J.Jordan (Peking) Foreign Office.
December 5th, 1915.
3.15 p.m.
No: 282. (R).
Your telegram No: 245 (of October 4th) and
my telegram immediately preceding.
Following arrangements are being made to enforce list system in Hongkong, Ceylon and Straits Settlements.
(A) (1) Goods landed from any British, Allied or neutral ship for transhipment will be detained if consigned to a firm not on the White List or by a firm in China on the Black List.
(2) If such goods are landed from a British
or Allied ship, and the Colonial authorities decide, (after communication if necessary with British Consular Officer concerned) that satisfactory evidence is available they will be placed in the Prize Court.
(B) Goods brought into port in transit and not for transhipment.
with;
(1) if on a neutral ship will not be interfered
(2) if shipped from the United States on a ship of Conference lines will not be interfered with; or
(3)
on any other British or Allied vessel will be detained if consigned to or from firms on the Black List and placed in Prize Court if sufficient
evidence is available.
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