Any further communication on the subject, please quote No 51150/10.
and address-
The Controller, Foreign Trade Department.
Telephone: Gerrard 3640.
Sir,
291
FOREIGN TRADE DEPARTMENT,
LANCASTER HOUSE,
ST. JAMES', S.W.
19 June, 1916.
CO 28783
REG 20 JUN 16
With reference to your letter No. 26608/1916 of the 5th instant, on the subject of a proposed shipment of feathers by the Nordisk Fjerfabrik from Hongkong to Copenhagen, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to request you to inform Mr. Secretary Bonar Law that his attention has been drawn to the fact that proceedings are pending in the Prize Court against this Company in respect of certain similar shipments of feathers to Denmark, as the Contraband Committee at the Foreign Office have reason to believe that feathers, which have a military value in Germany, are finding their way into that country through Scandinavian ports. Under these circumstances Sir E. Grey is of opinion that it would not be advisable to allow the export from Hongkong of so considerable a shipment as the one in question until the Company is able to satisfy His Majesty's Government that no part of it will be allowed to reach an enemy country.
I am to suggest, should Mr. Secretary Bonar Law see no objection, that instructions to this effect may be telegraphed to the Governor of Hongkong.
The Under-Secretary of State,
COLONIAL OFFICE.
I am,
Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
CONTROLLER.
Any further communication
on the subject, please quote
No 51150/10.
and address-
The Controller,
Foreign Trade Department.
Telephone: Gerrard 3640.
Sif,
291
FOREIGN TRADE DEPARTMENT,
LANCASTER HOUSE,
ST. JAMES,
.W.
C O
28783
19 June, 1916.
REC
REG 20 JUN 16! mo?
|
With reference to your letter 'Ho, 26608/1916 of
the Fth instant, on the subject of a proposed shipment of feathers by the Nordisk Fjerfabrik from Hongkong to Copenhagen, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to
request you to inform Mr. Secretary Bonar Law that his
attention has been drawn to the fact that proceedings are pending in the Prise Court against this Company in respect
of certain similar shipments of feathers to Denmark, as
the Contraband Committee at the Foreign Office have reason
to believe that feathers, which have a military value in
Germany, are finding their way into that country through Scandinavian ports. Under these circumstances Sir E. Grey
is of opinion that it would not be advisable to allow the
export from Hongkong of so considerable a shipment as the
one in question until the Company is able to satisfy His
Majesty's Government that no part of it will be allowed
to reach an enemy country.
I am to suggest, should Mr. Secretary Bonar Law
see no objection, that instructions to this effect may be
telegraphed to the Governor of Hongkong.
The Under-Secretary of State,
COLONIAL OFFICE.
I am,
sir.
Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
CONTROLLER.
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