CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915 — Page 551

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OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENTARY. COUNSEL,

WHITEHALL,

S.Wi

/5 March, 1915.

Sir,

WR 193

In reply to Mr. Read's letter, addressed to the Treasury, of the 3rd March enclosing a letter from the Governor of Hongkong to Mr. Secretary Harcourt, I am of opinion that the documentary bills referred to in the Attorney General' minute enclosed with the Governor's letter should not be handed over to the Shanghai Branch of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank.

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

S.V.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Arthur T Thring