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Any further communication

or the subject, please quote

45118/10.

and address—

The Controller,

Foreign Trade Department.

Telephone: Gerrard 5640.

25565

228

REDREIGN TRADE Department, REG:30 4 16

LANCASTER HOUSE,

29 May

1916.

ST. JAMES,

S.W.

sir,

I am directed by Sir E. Grey to acknowledge receipt of your letter 15421/1916, dated the 17th

instant, enclosing copy of an Ordinance to amend

the law relating to importation and exportation in

the Colony of Hongkong and to say that Sir E. Grey

is of opinion that the ordinance is well adapted to

enable the Hongkong Government to exercise the necessary

control over the colony's import and export trade.

With reference to the second paragraph

of your letter, I am to state for Mr. Secretary Bonar

Law's information, that confusion having arisen owing

to the fact that some of the black lists or lists of

suspect exporters issued by His Majesty's Consuls in

China, in particular the list issued by the Consul

General at Shanghai, contained names not included in

the black list kept in this Department, and vice versa,

steps are now being taken to prepare a revised black

list for China and Siam which will be issued by this

Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

WHITEHALL.