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BREED ALL COMMUNICATIONS CHAIRMAN.**

TRADE CLEARING HOUSE,

TRADE CLEARING HOUSE]| REG 17 APR 16

BROADWAY house,

TOTHILL STREET,

WESTMINSTER, S.W.

y quote Re£. No,

TES: 2011.01517.

14th April 1916.

The Chairman of the Trade Clearing House

presents his Compliments to

The Under becretary of State, Colonial Office, and begs to submit the annexed papers which may

prove of interest

Memorandum on Transit Letter 01517 from the German Consul, shanghai to the Foreign Office,berlin, presenting a scheme for establishing a central German merchant firm in East Asia, through. which German exporters may sell their goods after the war.

It is thought that the Australian authorities would perhaps be interested to know of this scheme.

Similar communications

have been sent to: -

Foreign Office.

Admiralty, Trade Division. War Office.

Mar

Board of Trade.

Board of Customs and Excise. Restrictions of Enemy

Supplies Committee. Chief Cable Censor. Chief Postal Censor. Board of Agriculture. Colonial Office. India Office.

War Trade Department.

200 W10.99-284. 250. 7/15. Op.133. A.LE. W.

1, 036. 250. 9/18.