CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916 — Page 111

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Mr. Punch, British Vice-Consul at Copenhagen answered that

if the Belgian Legation or the Belgian Consul at Copenhagen

rould raise no objection, the British Consulate would give

the export permit.

Thereupon the Belgian Consul at Copenhagen,

after gaving discussed the matter with the Belgian Lega-

tion here, informed us that there was no objection to tho

xport of thegoods, and the late Mr. Punch, the British Vice-

bonsul, on hearing this, confirmed to the undersigned that the

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glass could be shipped, without mentioning anything as regards

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a special export permit from the Foreign Office in London,

being required.

on the strength of this assurance we bought the

glass,and paid for same at once to the Belgian firm.

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We then received the Consular certificate of origin, lega-

lized by the Belgian Consul at Amsterdam which we sent

to you and on presenting this document to the British and

the Belgian Consulate at Copenhagen,we were given an export

permit. The latter was forwarded by us to Wessrs. Van Es &

an Ommeren, a Dutch firm or forwarding agents at Amsterdam,

ho are to ship the glass to Hongkong, but it was returned to

with the remark, that this paper was not sufficient and

at we must have an export permit from the Foreign office

London.

According to your tele-rom the Foreign office in

London