CO129-587-9 Smuggling of kerosene oil and other commodities into China 22-4-1940 - 19-6-1940 — Page 8

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In any further communication on this subject, please quote

No. F 3382/1/10

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but to-

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'The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

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Foreign Office.

S.W.1.

RECEIVED 13th June, 1940.

Sir,

Copy, BHK

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I am directed by Viscount Halifax to acknowledge your letter 54052/40 of the 7th June and to inform you that he concurs in the reply which Lord Lloyd proposes to send to the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong.

2. Lord Halifax trusts that the Hong Kong authorities will continue to be cautious and non-commital in any further communications which they may have to make to the Commissioner of Customs on the subject of smuggling kerosene oil and other commodities into Chinese territory.

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I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Ashley Clarke

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE.

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Fr. Gov. No. 195

22. 4.1940

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FURTHER ACTION.

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Sir,

3 June

Downing Street,

7 June

May, 1940.

am

I have etc., to transmit

to you to be laid before Viscount

Halifax a copy of a despatch from

1

the Governor of Hong Kong reporting

that representations have been

made to the Hong Kong Government

by the Commissioner of Chinese

Maritime Customs for Kowloon and

District regarding the smuggling

of kerosene oil and other commodities

The Colony

from Bong Kong into the Mirs Bay

districts.

2.

It appears to the S. of S.

that as a matter of law Hong Kong

is under no obligation to impose

special measures to assist the Chinese Customs to make effective

the ban which the Chinese Government

has imposed on the importation of

kerosene oil, and that as a matter

the

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of neighbourliness/Hong Kong/can fairly take into account the very

extensive importations into China

which are made under the aegis of

the

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