CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6] — Page 749

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With reference to my telegram of the Brd. instant respecting goods consigned to the American Import Company, of which W. F. Sobmidt, an American citizen of German origin is the proprietor, I have the honour to transmit for Your Excellency's information copy of a despatch which I am to-day addressing to Ela Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign

Affairs.

The American Minister had on March 20th. informed me

that during the past week the Authorities at Hongkong had permitted twenty-five parcel post shipments from Japan to pass

He addressed to T. 7. Schmidt of the American Import Company. expressed his gratification at this attitude and expressed the hope that Schmidt's name had been removed from the Black List, and assumed that as shipments from Japan were allowed to resch Schmidt through British ports, the British authorities would no longer object to the importation of goods from America or to

I informed Mr. Hornibrook their transshipment in British porte. verbally after telegraphing to the Foreign Office (which massage vai repeated to Your Excellency on March 20th) and receiving a reply, that he was under a misspprehension sa regards relaxation at Hongkong in Schmidt'■ favour and that his naDS

was retained on the Black List.

Mr. Bernibrook has now reverted to the subject, as Tour Excellency will note in the enclosure to my despatch to the Foreign office barawith trammitted. My reply to the American Minister is a refusal to discuss the matter here, as the whole question is in the hands of His Majesty's Government -

Bis Excellency

Bir I. E. Hăy, I.Đ.N.G

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(sd.) Herbert G. Dering,

H. M. Minister.