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8. 13 OCT.

F.0./48543/H.Kong

10. 19

DRAFT.

UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

MINUTE.

Mr. Beckett 1/10/1

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Mr. Fobino 18/50/16

Mr.

Mr. Grindle.

Mr. Lambert.

Mr. Read.

Sir G. Fiddes.

Mr. Steel-Maitland.

Mr. Bonar Lato.

corres.to M. of M.

Sent 19/10/16

Quod 51110

Sir,

Downing Street,

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October, 1916.

I am directed by Mr.Secretary

Bonar Law to acknowledge the receipt

of your letter No.193878/X/ of the 9th

October regarding antimony for for Messrs

Vogelstein & Company, New York, and to

Lord Robert Cacil request you to inform Viscount Grey of

Fallodon that it has not been kid down in

previous cases of shipments of Chinese

antimony from Hong Kong to the United

States of America that the importers

should be on the list of approved recipients

and have furnished the ordinary antimony

guarantee and that the ment to which

Viscount Grey agreed in the letter from

your Department of the 23rd November 1915

(54141) No.171281/15 was that the British Consul

General would release such antimony if

satisfied that it would be used in produc-

ing munitions for the Allies.

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2. If, however, Lord Robert Cecil wishes

better under acknowledgment referred to ir your additional conditions to be enforced in the

present case, Mr.Bonar Law will inform the

Governor and Wessrs Rudolf Wolff & Company

that shipment cannot be allowed unless they

are fulfilled.

I am &c.,

(Signed) G. GRINDLE