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PRESIDENT
LOND
LEITH OF PYVIE
OHAIRMAN
EUT COL. BIR MERVYN
UNNINGHAM-BULLER. ET.
VIDE-CHAIRMAN !
MR. E.
OSBORN.
HOM BROWSTARY:
TE CULLING-CARR, J.P.
TANT AND RUBINEDA AEONETARY
. REGINALD WILSON.
20.
EBS/LW
bascaliena shauld be addressed to the
Flam. Secretary.
THE BRITISH
EMPIRE
FOR BRITISH
SUBJEOTE
The British Empire Union
Incorporating the ANTI-GERMAN UNION.
NO GERMAN INFLUENCE, NO GERMAN LABOUR, NO GERMAN GOODS
That compete with British.
Band Ofree-
TELEGRAPHIC ADDALI :
"OPPOSERMA.
ESTRAND, LONDON. "
TELEPHONE, CITY 23.0.
BANKERI
ME LLOYDS BANK LIMITE 222, STAAND, LONDON, W.C.
AUDITORE: NEBORG, JACKSON, PIXLEY & C
58. COLEMAN TAKET, E-C.
BOLIGTONE Me. H. 3. A. FOY C.C.
4. WALBROOK, EC.
19th July 1917
346, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. 2
(Corner of Aldwych and Wellington Street.)
Dear Sir,
Having had continual complaints from correspondents
in Hong-Kong and Shanghai with regard to the refusal on the
part of the Government to take any steps to close down German
fims trading there, I am informed that the Government is
inclined to be pro-German; was a friend and had visited the
Kaiser before the war and had admired him very much. I wrote
to the Colonial Office asking if they would give this matter
their attention; theit reply is "The Question at issue is one
which will engage the serious attention of H.K.Government at
the proper time and it is obviously impossible to make any
statement of policy at present on the subject".
This seems to me a very unsatisfactory answer but
it is only on a'par' with the attitude taken up by theGovern-
ment on all these matters and it looks as if they were going
to leave everything severely alone in the hopes that they will
slip back after the war into the old pre-war state and that we
shall have Germans and German trading carried on in the same
way as before the war. Do you think this is a matter which
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