CO129-544-13 British Empire Fair- reports- etc. 10-8-1933 - 8-11-1933 — Page 47

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CONFIDENTIAL SUPPL 109? no ego "prPORT OP THE BAITI H SIPINE PAIN, 1933* (čutel And June) to be read in conjunction with the section "Organisation of Future Faire” on page 17 of the thin report.

Euforation has reached tie writer Πthis report, in

qu'icence, that duulead firms in long Long would probably take

suchi a large part in a liong Hong Yuir (as dista:at from an Empire

,uir) that their section alune might be nearly as large as the

whole 1535 Fuir. but chaque cumïmaturers in ikong kong do the

creator part of their business with China and they lauve to consider

the surosptibilities of their ow countrymen in the interior. They

dannot afford to be called "imperialists" because they want to taice

Bovantage of the dunese hationalist slogan "Let Chinese buy what

the Chinene mike”. I have been informed that long ong Chinese

lizma við obwod in the Empire Fair of 1958 also took part in the

Canton Dusibition od jebruary 1950, but they are now on a kind of

black list with the Canton Autuorities and will not be aɛmitted to

future Canton FairS. One of the large department stores, which

hs taken considerable space in tuo Fair, got news of these

possible consequences and withdrew their applicati-le

(4) i F. Key.