CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2] — Page 581

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British Fabassy,

Tokyo, January 17th., 1916.

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I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency's despatch of the 31st. December last with reference to the question of placing firms on the Black List.

I have the honour to point out that the position

with regard to enemy trading in Japan, which is an Allied Country and does not herself prohibit enemy trading, is different even from that in China and Siam and that there is nothing in the Trading with the Enemy Proclamations to prevent say a firm in Manchester from trading with a German firm in Japan, much less then with a Japanese or neutral firm which ■ acts as a "fence*

for an enemy firm.

All that it is possible for me to do at present under existing Regulations is to draw the attention of His Majesty's Government and Colonial Governments to suspicious cases in the hope that this information may prove of some use.

In the course of the next few days I hope to be abl to send you a list which is now in the hands of the Printer, all Enemy Firme in Japan and of such of their "fences" as are known, so that in the event of any restrictions being placed on trade between British subjects and enemy firma in Japan Your Excellency may have the information at your disposal.

I have etc..

(8d.) Connyngham Greene.

His Excellency

Sir F. H. May, K.C.M.G..

Governor,

Hongkong.