CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2] — Page 369

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was brought up before our Advisory Committee on Tuesday, when I made a brief statement as to the difficulties

which have arisen and mentioned the view of the Governor

of Hong Kong.

The Commercial Members of the Advisory Committee did not appear to believe very much in the alleged preference of German firms, nor did they attach much importance to the lientas one of them remarked, this sort of lien was not uncommon in business and the great point was whether the bill was met at maturity. The general view seemed to be that there was no harm in approaching the accepting houses with a view to discover (1) whether they had given any preference to Germans, (2) whether they were ready to enforce in all cases the

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