CO129-439 - Others - 1916 — Page 130

Any further communication

the subject, please quote

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33523/23.

address-

The Controller,

Foreign Trade Department.

riephone: Gerrard 8640,

sir,

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REGARRIG DEPARTMENT,

LANCASTER HOUSE,

ST. JAMES,

S.W.

# April,

1916.

In reply to your letter 15132/1916 dated the

7th instant, I am directed by Secretary Bir E. Grey

to state that, pending the issue of a Statutory List of

enemy persons and firms and persons and firms having

enemy associations in Japan with whom trading is pro-

hibited under the Trading with the Enemy (Extension

of Powers) Act 1915, which is in course of preparation

and will shortly be published in the London Gazette, he

concurs in the instructions given by the Governor of

Hongkong to the Cable Censor with regard to letters and telegrams to and from enemy subjecte in Japan.

I a

sir,

Your most obedient

humble Servant,

A Mertingentet

The Under Secretary of State,

COLONIAL OFFICE,

Downing Street,

Whitehall, S.T.

CONTROLLER.