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In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. 14663/X/1138.

and address,

I

bet to-

not to any person by name,

"The Under-Secretary of Stato,”

Foreign Office,

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London, 8.W.1.

Sir:-

REC!

C O

5201

REA 30 JAN 181

FOREIGN OFFICE

S.W. 1.

January 29

1918.

I am directed by Lord Robert Cecilto acknow-

ledge the receipt of your letters Nos.3206/1918

For and 4056/1918 or the 22nd. and 23rd. instant

respectively, relative to the temporary suspension of licences for exports to Japan.

2. In reply I am to refer to the Foreign

Office letter No.14611/X of the 25th. instant and

say that it is presumed that the list of firms which have signed the guarantee against re-export

to Russia communicated by His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokio, in his telegram No.61, a copy of which was enclosed in that letter, has been communicated to

the Governor of Hong Kong. Instructions have been

sent to Sir C.Greene to telegraph direct to Hong Kong all additions to this list.

3. With regard to the question asked by the Governor of Hong Kong as to whether he may be

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial office.

authorized