CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920 — Page 48

DRAFT.

Hong Kong.

Secret.

Gov. Stubbs,

Admy.37499/20.

H.K.

(ace.draft)

19 J

46

2 October, 1920.

With reference to my tel. of the

18

of Oct., I have the honour to tre, to you a

copy of a 1r, from the Adm. regarding the

ddsire of the Angle Persian 011 Co. to erect

a fuel oil bunkering installation at Hong

Kong.

MINUTE.

2.

The matter has since been under the

Mr. Harman

Mr. Beckett, (3

Colles 14 Mr.

conson, of the D.D.C., who have expressed

Mr. Grindle.

Sir H. Lambert.

Sir H. Read.

Sir G. Fiddes.

Col. Amery.

Lord Milner."

the opinion that, from a defence point of

view,

there is no objection to the erection

by the Company of an oil fuel installation

Admy 29.7.20, on the mainiau at nong Kong on a site to

Aplan

I have asked Adany

another copy of pean

ADDT.

the immediate east of the Coaling Depôt

and Naval Yard. At the same time the Cắtee.

point out that they are not in possession

3 draft's

of any information to show what quantity

of oil the Anglo-Persian Oil Co, proposen

to store on the site in question, and in this

connexion they call attention to the fact

that the proposed installation is in close