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Any further communication

on the subject, please quote

No.

75414/45X.

Luddress-

The Controller,

Foreign Trade Department.

Telephone: Gerrard 8640.

43735

REC

REG 13 SEP 16

475

FOREIGN TRADE DEPARTMENT,

LANCASTER HOUSE,

ST. JAMES,

S.W.

Th

September 12 1916.

sir,

I am directed by Viscount Grey of Fallodon

to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 7th inst., (4087/1916) enclosing copy of a despatch which has been sent to the Governor of Hong Kong relative to the detention at that port of 7 cases of machinery consigned by Messrs. Mirrlees, Bickerton & Day Ltd.,

to the Cooper Co. of Manila.

With regard to the second paragraph of your letter under acknowledgement I am to request you to inform the Secretary of State for the Colonies that the last paragraph of the letter from this Department of the 28th ultimo (71468/45X) was intended to refer

to goods shipped from all ports, whether in the United Kingdom or in Allied or neutral countries,

I am,

he Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

Downing Street,

Whiteball.

sir,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

Mating an

CONTROLLER.

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