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Any further communication should be addressed co-

THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY,

at the address given opposite.

The following letter and number should

be quoted 3218

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Telegraphio Address :

COLASTA, LONDON. Telephone No.: 3840 Victoria.

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BOARD OF TRADE,

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[REGL 13 MAR 16

(COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT),

GWYDYR HOUSE,

WHITEHALL,

LONDON, S.W.

11th March,1916.

Gentlemen,

With reference to your letter of the 3rd March,

I am directed by the Board of Trads to state that they will

offer no objection to the goods described in their letter

of the 19th Jubruary numbered as above in respect of which

you claim a lien being shipped from byrscuss to liongkong in a neutral vessel provided that you undertake to fumish His Majesty's Procurator General with a full statement of your

claim in the matter and to pay to him or to his direction any surplus which may remmin out of the proceeds of the goods after that claim has been satisfied.

I have to add that the board consider that in the

interests of this country every effort possible should be made to obtain a British or failing that an Allied shio to carry the goods in question and that the goods should be carried by a neutral vessel under the conditions stated Above only if it is not ressonably possible to adopt any

other course.

I am,

Gentlemen,

Your obedient Servant,

gned) H. FOINT!

Heare. The jusso-Asiatic Bank,

64, old Broad Street,

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