CO129-439 - Others - 1916 — Page 245

Any further communication

on the subject, please quote

No. 48157/23

and aldress-

The Controller,

Foreign Trade Department.

Telephone: Gerrard 86-40.

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FOREIGN TRADE Department,

REC LANCHON 16,

ST. JAMES,

30th May 1916.

S.W.

sir,

With reference to your letter No. 22804/1916

of the 23rd instant, I am directed by Secretary Sir

E. Grey to enclose copy of an enquiry from Messrs.

Boustead & Co., relating to the payment of dividends

to certain enemy subjects in Hongkong and Japan.

Messrs. Boustead & Co., have been informed that as

Mr. F.W. Retz is on the Statutory List for Japan, it

is not permissible to remit any sum on account of

dividends to him during the present war, and that,

as regards the German shareholders in Hongkong, their enquiry has been referred to the Colonial Office for

a reply.

I am,

sir,

Your most obedient,

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

humble Servant,

Walter Townley

in the controller.

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