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TELEGRAPHIC Aþore: "CONVENTION, CANNON, LONDON,"

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TELEPHONE Nos 7554-5-6 CITY.

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1, 2 & 3, "OXFORD COURT & 97, CANNON STREET,

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No. 325

COLONIAL

OFFICE

The Under Secretary of State,'

Cólonial Office, 5.V.

LONDON, E.C.

17th November, 1915.

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sir,

FÆR RASTERN SECTION

Enemy Firns in China.

I an instructed to refer to communications

from the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce, copies of which

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sent you on October 14th, and to invite your observa-

tions, for the benefit of the members of the Far Fastern

Section of the Chamber upon the following specific points

mentioned therein.

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(1) In the memorandum dated August 4th, forming

part of the papers in question, it is stated that consider-

able quantities of German manufactures are sent to Holland,

there marked "made in Holland", shipped thence by Dutch

vessels to the Dutch East Indies and subsequently distributed

throughout the Far East, chiefly by the Java, China and Japan

Line.

I am instructed to enquire whether this is the osse,

and, whether, should you not be in possession of any definite

information on the subject, you would kindly draw the

attention of the Hongkong Government to the matter and

request that a careful investigation in regard thereto be

canduated without delay.

(2) It is stated that stooks of piece goods still on

hand in Hongkong, appertaining to the German firms there

now in liquidation, are estimated at between four and five

million dollars; that it is improbable these will be dis-