CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916 — Page 166

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The Under Secretary of State for the Colonies. Colonial Office.

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1. 3. 1916.

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are in all cases, for Customers whose names have been

subirdtted to, and approved by the Foreign office.

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all these articles, and they are many, which are "prohibited", are always shipped, as far as they are approved of, under

a Licence from the war Trade Department, so that the

position 13, after having fulfilled all the conditions laid

down by the Home Government, the continuation of our business with an important part of China, must for the greater part be stopped by the sudden additional precautions imposed by the Hong Kong Authorities, on goods which have hitherto been allowed to remain in the go-downs there,

pending transhipment to Port of destination.

I should like to add the following facts:-

We have been cultivating sucessfully, our trade with China for the last fifty years.

Our Governing Director has himself paid two visits to the Country end to each of the principal centres of the trade, and we keep at

heavy cost, a travelling representative there all the year

round.

The sudden stoppage of our goods for an unknown