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In any further communication
on the subject, please quote
No. 172478/X.
sad address-
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
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London,
REG 12 SEP 10
FOREIGN OFFICE
September //,1916.
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Sir:-
I am directed by Lord R. Cecil to transmit to
you herewith for the information of Mr.Secretary Bonar Law, a copy of an intercepted letter from the Shanghai representative of the Hamburg-America Line to his head office, relative to the formatio..
of a new trans-Pacific service under the name of
the "American International Corporation" which is to replace that formerly carried on by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and which the writer hopes will prove of use to German trade.
The reported formation of this new trans- Pacific service has been confirmed by His Majesty's Consuls General at Shanghai and San Francisco, but
as far as call at present be ascertained, the interest
which Messrs.W.R. Grace and Company may have in the
new line does not appear sufficient to justify the
contention that this line is controlled by them in
such a manner as to be covered by the agreement in
regard to Messrs. Grace's vessels, referred to in my
letter No.144180 of the 28th July.
To obtain therefore from this new line an under-
taking to refrain from carrying goods consigned to,
by.
he Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office.
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