CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11] — Page 802

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I have the honour to soknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's letter No. 86 in SF90/1915 dated 11th. September last in which you point out that of 89 firms in

Siam, to whom cargo, which may be described no "Chinese car go' was recently consigned from Hongkong, only five appear in the Siam Local White List and you ask me for my views on the gereral question of making the latter list more nearly complete

or this subject I have been in cereultation with

His Majesty's Consul-General and I find that the principle

here erplied, when drawing up these lists, ie that they should

contain only the names of merchants and others who would be

likely to deal in merchandize of a character which would be of

interest to enemy traders and proscribed houses. Firme of

entmy association in Siam, whether importers or distributers,

are not interested in the importation of miscellareous native

produce - but rather deal in materiale which might be

described generally as of a Europear form of origin.

Endeavours here have been directed to restrict

the size of the white List by declining to include petty traders whose importations of foreign (es opposed to Asiaf10)

merchandize are trivial in smourt, or whe deal solely in local

produce of rativa origin, as it wee feared thef enemy firme

would speedily attempt to select obscure individuals whose

names were placed ● in the White Liet and bribe them to import

goods or their behalf.

This restriction of the White List, which has now

taken the form of dividing it with the authorization of Hie

Majesty's Government into what may be desofibed as "Gereral

European" and "Looal Asiatic"

seotions according as the personeį