CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918 — Page 267

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SHANGHAI,

TIENTSIN, HANKOW,

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The Eastern Trading Company, Limited.

HEAD OFFICE:

Telegram992

LITTLE, ST. GILES, TERNTRA, SHANGHAI TERMTRA, TIENTEIN,

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ORANGORNE 4.

263

ST. GILES,

SALISBURY,

England.

December 30th, 1918.

His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the polonie

Colonial Office,

Dear Sir,

Downing Street,

LONDON.

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We beg to oall your attention to a mostertõus lat 4 be

of affairs in connection with our Company, arising out of an action

of the British Government of Hongkong to which we respectfully ask

your attention.

The facts as far se we are at present informed upon the

subject, are as follows:-

We undertook a contract under which we sold 011 to the

value of £67,500 to a Swiss buyer acting under the Societe Suisse

de Surveillance, to be delivered at Marseilles for transit to

Switzerland. It is perhaps needless to remind you that this Swise

Organization is the one with which British Merchants are permitted

to trade by the authority of H.M. Government.

A confirmed Banker'a Oredit was passed through London Bankers, namely,

the London County Westminster & Parr's Bank & the Hongkong

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Shanghai Banking Corporation, through whom all shipping documents were to be sent, thus insuring that all Government requirements were fully complied with. The shipment of Oil was being'on board a Steamer in Shanghai which sailed on November 28th for Hongkong, at that Port the consignment was to be transhipped into the S. S. "Ganges'

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