CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915 — Page 678

Sir,

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36358

REC REG 7 AUG 15

RUBBER AND TIN EXPORTS

TTÉK..

3, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE,

WESTMINSTER, S.W.

7th August, 1915.

With reference to Mr. Read's letter of the 2nd

Your

instant No. 34597

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on the subject of the discharge

at Larseilles of a consignment of tin shirped by the 8.5. "Fushimi Maru" I am directed by the Aubber & Tin Exports Committee to state, for the information of Mr. Secretary Bonar Law, that they wrote to Messrs. H.R.Merton & Co. Ltd. and to the Shipping Company (Nippon Yusen Kaisha) as suggested in the second paragraph of that letter, and I am to forward herewith a copy of the reply which

has been received from the parties referred to. The

Committee will be much obliged if Mr. Bonar Law will be so good as to inform them what action he wishes to be

taken in the matter.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient, humble Servant,

JK Gebby

Secretary,

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.