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In any further communication

on the subject, please quote

No. 158036/210/K.

and addres

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

Urgent.

London.

i ċ 39347

REC

REG 19 16 16

FOREIGN OFFICE

August 18th 1916

Sir:-

Govt.

With reference to your letter 32771/1916 of the

14th ultimo and previous correspondence in regard

to the Shanghai Registry of Companies I am directed by

Viscount Grey of Fallodon to transmit to you for the

information of Mr. Secretary Bonar Law a copy of a

telegram received in this Department from His Majesty's

Consul General in Shanghai in which he states that he

has not received funds for the salaries for the six

months ended June 30th last of the Crown Advocate

and Deputy Registrar from the Government of Hongkong or

any reply to two applications for the amount, and asks

leave to draw a bill on the Foreign Office to meet

this expenditure. I am to suggest that, should Mr. Bonar

Law see no objection, immediate representations may be

made by telegram authorising the Goverment of Hongkong

to remit the amount due forthwith to Sir E. Fraser, as

the salaries in question are not borne on the Votes

administered by this Department.

I am to request that this office may be duly

informed of the result of such representations.

I

sir,

am,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

Mamice de Nunsen

Under Secretary of State,

Colonial office.