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Enclosure
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The Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,
New Government Building,
Des Voeux Road,
Hongkong, 5th. January, 1916.
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I am directed by my Committee to reply to your letter of
the 23rd September, No. 41 in 3590/15, in respect of the second principle referred to in my letter of even date vis.:"
That the Commercial interests of the Community and of the Colony demand that all legitimate steps should be taken to counteract the growing influence of German trade in Hongkong and
China.
2.
My Committee fully realise that the steps which they ad- -vocate should be taken in respect of the German firms in the Colony with the above object in view, may be regarded as a departure from the principles hitherto recognised as properly governing the attitude of a belligerent nation towards the private property and
interests of enemy subjects within its domains. But this war has
revealed the necessity for modification, in the national interests, if many principles hitherto observed and my Committee are of opinion
that a modification of the principles referred to above is a
necessity also. It is no longer a question of the invasion of
private rights but of the protection of national interests.
3. The German methods of trade which the war has brought
out into clear light, underhand and undermining as they were, and backed by Government support as they were believed to be, might not, perhaps, taken alone, be regarded as sufficient to justify my departure from principle in so far as they might fairly be locked upon as the natural efforts of a country to expand its trade at the prpense of its rivals. But the war has revealed that, underneath this Commercial expansion, lay a far more dangerous and sinister Estive. It is clear that the German Empire aimed at a world dominance
ar the imposition of its sway and its "Kultur" on the whole of the
civilized
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