CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916 — Page 190

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

the Tast Jew

during has been the years, willingness of Jerman firms to five more.

Credit to себе

for mere brugers. Mus

exter here formline

septem of

extended

тірекон

& it

credit is probabl ingenions

to souced trading

appears

BimBonar

Law very posille that it has been facilitated

the advantage derived 6 the German tradus from their own misuse

by

Mr London Acceptance System.

4.5 Mr Bonan Law would

be glad if the Boar would Lattain b Hull Jacksons Observations on the poniti hut forward in the preceding paragraphs Filte рагазгарно regard to to effect of the Con Chas Englingments in this.

6. St. I had much off [ast]

обрат

nexth. - expend

+

DRAFT.

-tioned in Un

preceding para

other Bills,

184

6.

As regards the effect of the

" cold storage "arrangements on the situa-

tion, Mr.Bonar Law understands the

suggestion of the China Association to

be that His Majesty's Government should

matt not have advance accepting Houses, Ón

S

aspectof Bills secured by letters of

lien or trust, in respect of goods ship-

non.

enoug ped to de

territory, but

should have left the accepting House, to

iti

realize their security

7.

could.

It may well be that it would

not have been possible at the outbreak

(for the fort to make any)

of war

distinction

between Bills of the kind min-

but the point made by the China Associa-

tion appears to have some substance,

is assumed (as

especially if it were established fat

the association appear to asseny that the Banks in question had acquierced in,

or connived at, the action of the German

houses in disregarding their obligations

under the letters of trust and lien.

8.

In this connection, I am to

enclose

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