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Any further communication should be aldressed to

THE SECRETARY, at the address given opposite.

The following number and telters muşt he quoted.

W.T.D. 14593/17 S.

Letters will be dealt with more expedi- tiously if they relate to one application only

Lelegrams -

WARTRADE, VIC, LONDON

1813. WC. 192507652, 0010,

C. O

+57461

57461 B15

REC “[RENT 23 NOV 17]

WAR TRADE DEPARTMENT; }

4, DENTRAL BUILDINGS,

WESTMINSTER, S.W. 1.

Your reference

52964/1917.

Sir,

22nd November, 1917.

Gov 52964

I am instructed by the Director of the War Trade

Department to refer to your letter of the 9th instant,

in which you transmitted copy of a despatch received from

the Governor of Hong Kong, relative to the prohibition

on the export of certain articles from the Colony.

I am to state for the information of Mr. Secretary

Long that Lord Emmott seee no objection, in view of the

strong representations contained in the second paragraph of the Governor'a despatch, to provisions being retained in List "C", in spite of the fact that it

will be possible for export to Dutch Possessions in the

East Indies to be continued.

The Under Secretary of State,

etc.

etc.

eto., Colonial Office.

JH/OS.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Arching