CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918 — Page 177

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Any further communication OP

the subject, please quote

No.

192927/50

And address-

The Coner,

Foreign Trade Department.

Telephone: Gerrard 8640.

sir,

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FOREIGN TRADE DEPARTMENT,

Bridgewater

RES 3 AUG 18 7

th

ST. JAMES'S,

August 1918.

S.W. 1,

I am directed by Mr. Secretary Balfour to for refer to your communication of the 24th July (33984) transmitting a copy of a despatch received from the

33984 Governor of Hongkong, on the subject of the employ- ment of enemy allens in neutral and Allied firms.

I am to state, for the information of Mr. Secretary Long, that the policy of this Department has been to include in the Published Black List for China and Siam, or in the Statutory List for the Dutch East Indies and for other countries, the names of firms employing enemy subjects when this appeared desirable. In a large number of cases, however, re- presentations were first made privately to the firm to the effect that His Majesty's Government would feel the necessity of taking such action, in view of the per- sons employed by the firm, and in a large proportion of these cases this led to the dismissal of the enemy sub- jects without further pressure.

I am,

sir,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

Will spens

for Controller.

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial office, Whitehall, S.V.1.

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