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Any further communication

the subject, please quote

No.

11067/11067.

and address

The Controller,

Foreign Trade Department.

Telephone: Gerrard 8640,

FOREIGN TRADE DEPARTMENT,

LANSASTER HOUSE,

ST. JAMES,

S.W.

Sir,

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January, 1916.

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With reference to your letter No. 59354/1915

of 4th January, 1916, to the Home Office, transmitting

dividend warrants addressed to German subjects in

Hong Kong, I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey

to inform you that he does not consider it possible

to raise objection to the transmission of these

warrants to the addressees, if the latter are bona

fide resident in Hong Kong, to which colony the

Proclamations relating to frading with the Enemy

in China do not apply.

I am to suggest that, should Mr. Secretary

Bonar Law see no objection, the warrants, which are

enclosed herewith, should be returned to the

Governor with an intimation to this effect.

I am,

sir,

Your most obedient

humble Servant,

Ft. Agent

for the

CONTROLLER.

Under Secretary of state,

Colonial Office,

Whitehall,

8.W.