CO129-541-12 Application by Soviet Oil Company Union Petroleum Trust for permission to erect an oil tank... 14-11-1932 - 28-3-1933 — Page 29

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Any further communication should be addressed to :—

THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY,

at the address given opposite.

The following letter and number should

be quoted:--

C.R.T.

6619/32.

Telegraphic Address:

COLASTA, PARL, LONDON.

5140 whitehall. Telephone No.: 3840- Victoria.

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Sir,

COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AND TREATIES

- 5 JAN 1933

OL.O:

DEPARTMENT,

BOARD OF TRADE,

GREAT GEORGE STREET,

LONDON, S.W.1.

4th January, 1933.

I am directed by the Board of Trade to refer to your

X letters (92719/32. and 9272/32) of the 17th November and 3th December transmitting, for their observations, copy

of telegrams from the Officer Administering the Government

of Hong Kong on the subject of an application by the

Soviet Oil Company Union Petroleum Trust for permission to erect an oil tank at Hong Kong, and I am to state, for the information of Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, that they concur generally in the views expressed by the Foreign Office in their letter to your Department of the

21st November. The Board de not feel competent, to

express an opinion on the question of propaganda raised by

the lanaging Director of the Asiatic Petroleum Company and

referred to in the letter of the 13th December from the

Petroleum Department.

I am to add that, in the Board's view, it is

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

S.W.1.

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