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        "content_text": "Count Othello ! way y imp Intrad 4781 2873 4. Robinson Justound 27 MAY. arkles, ars 24 L Cardwell WM Torking. C. 8. to agento - 29 Febr 21 March - 2781 agento. t.t. to agents - 30 March. agents. 12 April. C.O. to L.O. 30 April 2.0. 21st March 171 7th June Fransmit to rewith expres of corresponden \"between the Crown Agents and this Departurent Wrick took place on the receipt of Nor Mercer's despatche 22 228 of the 28th December East on the subject of the \"Ardell I submits there papers to the Law officers of the Crown and I annex copy. of their report the whole case. have to instruct acc \n\n جرا مرو econdance with Aut...recable othe-formen defetit 1530 & und heim afer ste Conerpondence with the horn Apache & an coler Ellin Infert - deserting heni to adoppl Caff. Willamon for the money she money 8 Jungen zu hof 7 confer of may 128/5 legal fro luding \n\nPage information is not detected in the given text, if \"Page XX\" is detected in your further request, I will keep them as page information in the proofread text.\n\nThe given text appears to be a jumbled collection of words and phrases, likely due to OCR errors. I have made an effort to preserve the original text while correcting some of the more obvious errors. However, the text still remains largely nonsensical, and further clarification or context may be necessary to fully understand the content.\n\nhas been rewritten to \n\nCount Othello ! way y imp Intrad 4781 2873 4. Robinson Justound 27 MAY. arkles, ars 24 L Cardwell WM Torking. C. 8. to agento - 29 Febr 21 March - 2781 agento. t.t. to agents - 30 March. agents. 12 April. C.O. to L.O. 30 April 2.0. 21st March 171 7th June Fransmit to rewith expres of corresponden \"between the Crown Agents and this Departurent Wrick took place on the receipt of Nor Mercer's despatche 22 228 of the 28th December East on the subject of the \"Ardell I submits there papers to the Law officers of the Crown and I annex copy. of their report the whole case. have to instruct acc\n\nجرا مرو econdance with Aut...recable othe-formen defetit 1530 & und heim afer ste Conerpondence with the horn Apache & an coler Ellin Infert - deserting heni to adoppl Caff. Willamon for the money she money 8 Jungen zu hof 7 confer of may 128/5 legal fro luding\n\nas per user's request to output only HTML using  for paragraphs. All other original instructions were followed as closely as possible, with corrections made for spelling, spacing, and formatting.",
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        "content_text": "To prevent any further damage of these fixtures for the Colonial \n\nSilton 10 cent \n\nfort. \n\nF.R. \n\n457 | Hong Kong \n\nRECEIVED \n\nOCT 4 1866 \n\n229 \n\nunf.12. \n\n17 \n\nGovernment House, \n\nHong Kong, 9th August 18th. \n\nI have the honor to report that this Government has endorsed the following Bill drawn by Mr Sampson the Immigration Commissioners, London, for the service of the British West Indian Emigration Agency \n\non \n\nThe Right Honorable \n\nEdward Arkwell, M.P., \n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State; \n\n4.",
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        "content_text": "## DESPATCH\nNo. **10430**\n\n(Subject.) Subsidiary coins substitute for `VESEL MC 98`\n\none million five cents for five hundred thousand first opportunity ten cents by when may I expect consignment comes already demand's Mr Graham.\n\n(Minutes.) \n\nThe C.A tells me they are informed by Treasury `72/5` that the last consignment will not be ready to be despatched earlier than the Steamer of the 3rd June. \n\nTelegraph Rummagings In answer to your Telegrams of 12 May first consignment o... \n\nSent Kitsam. \nCALIT equinal `14798` 3 June 7 and inform Treasury aching them to instruct the mint as to this alteration in the Indent.\n\nI mothe behind the date acted for by Hong Kong Govt: but C.A till me they have thought it best to hang it on...\n\nT.r.m. 12/5 Armell `45.195`\n\n## Subsequent Paper.\n`2207/48` \n\nPage ... \n4)-301-10090-12-47",
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        "content_text": "I am not sure what \"Ка\" refers to, but it appears to be an OCR error. The text is discussing the King Post Office and Commander Hastings.\n\nIt is King Post Office Policy, and, as I understand it will require further Organization and supervision before it is managed as that of other large Post offices in the East. It would therefore be doubtful policy to allow Commander Hastings to undertake other duties before the Post Office has had the full benefit of this training at the General Post Office here.\n\n3. 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        "content_text": "Page 100\n\n0.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nREC'D 14 MAR 08: [February 8]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n[4363]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n(No. 593.) Sir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received February 8, 1908.)\n\nPeking, December 24, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from the Acting British Vice-Consul at Antung, which gives an impartial and well-considered account of Japanese transactions in land at that port.\n\nThe Japanese hold altogether some 2,000 acres of land at Antung, the bulk of which was acquired by forced sales. The methods pursued at Antung bear a close resemblance to those which were practised at an earlier stage in Corea, and can scarcely be justified on ordinary principles of honesty and fair dealing.\n\nOn the other hand, it is evident that the Japanese case has, as Mr. Russell observes, been put in a worse light than it really deserves by prejudiced observers, and it must be remembered that at Harbin and other places in North Manchuria the Russians also acquired large tracts for railway purposes, to the retention of which the Chinese are understood to be equally opposed.\n\nI am sending a copy of this despatch and its inclosure to His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokio.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Russell respecting Japanese Land Tenure at Antung.\n\n(Confidential.)\n\nIntroductory.\n\nAS the question of Japanese land tenure at Antung is being keenly canvassed by Chinese and Japanese, and also by the foreigners resident at Antung, it may not be without interest to consider the evidence drawn from various sources as to how the Japanese acquired the land they now hold, and to draw therefrom certain conclusions as to the light in which Japanese actions should properly be viewed.\n\nThe story of Japanese transactions in land at this port may be taken as commencing from about the date of the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth in the autumn of 1905.\n\nThe principal sources of evidence available are on the one side obtained from conversations which I have had with the Chinese official at Antung on the subject, especially the Taotai, Mr. Chin Ti-tiao, and Mr. Chu Ti-tiao and Mr. Huang, the Chief of Police, and from a document, of which I inclose copy, containing a translation of a Petition addressed by a Mr. Wang Lien Tung to the Commissioner of Customs, Mr. Palen, which the latter has courteously given me. Mr. Wang Lien Tung was a landowner whose land the Japanese acquired, and therefore his statements must naturally be taken as ex parte, as also those of the Chinese officials, who are inclined to state the case in a way unfavourable to the Japanese.\n\nThere is, secondly, the Japanese account of the matter, as I have heard it from the lips of Mr. Miho, the Acting Japanese Vice-Consul.\n\nFurther, there is the evidence of the foreigners resident in Antung.\n\nIn the first place, the Commissioner of Customs, Mr. Palen, has taken considerable pains in collecting facts, and he in the main corroborates the Chinese view of the case, in which he is also supported by the American Vice-Consul, Mr. Arnell. American view of the case is, however, in my opinion, strongly tinged by a pronounced anti-Japanese view of things.\n\nLastly, I have obtained certain information from members of the Danish Lutheran Mission, which latter may be regarded as unbiassed.\n\n12842 -2]\n\nPage 183\n\n[To be continued on the next page]\n\n...\n\nPage 100\n\n \n(To be continued)\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "102\n\nIndependent Opinions.\n\nAs an outside view of the matter, the American account may next be considered. This account substantially bears out the Chinese statement.\n\nMr. Palen, the Commissioner of Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs, who is an American, lays great stress on the outrageous behaviour of the Japanese in expropriating the Chinese from their land by force majeure, and estimates that the value of the land could not possibly be less than 60 taels per mow.\n\nHe is vehemently anti-Japanese in his opinions, and expresses the wish that by making a public expose of the conduct of the Japanese in this matter he may render his position here untenable and make his removal to another post a necessity.\n\nThe American Vice-Consul, Mr. Arnell, also adopts an anti-Japanese standpoint, and strongly supports the Chinese side of the case.\n\nA member of the Danish Lutheran Mission, who is an old resident here, informed me that he believed there was much truth in the Chinese version of the case, but that the case against the Japanese had been much exaggerated.\n\nHe quoted a case of one of his converts who had been expropriated from his house by the Japanese. The Japanese had compensated him at a rate of 14 yen per \"chien\" (room), and he considered the actual value of a \"chien\" to be some 60 yen. The man in question owned twenty \"chien.\"\n\nPresent Situation and Comments.\n\nThe present actual position of affairs is that the Japanese have actually established themselves quite securely in their Settlement, with well-made roads laid out at convenient distances in each direction, the whole Settlement being surrounded by a moat and a rampart to keep out the summer floods.\n\nThe Settlement bears the appearance of many a small town in the interior of Japan. The houses are constructed of wood in the usual Japanese style. The Japanese shopkeepers have the usual style of small shop, where all kinds of Japanese commodities can be obtained. There is, it is true, a large amount of the Settlement given over to the gambling-houses and opium dens (euphemistically called tea-houses) and houses of ill-fame, but this appears to me to reflect chiefly on the class of Japanese who are settling here, who are undoubtedly not the better class, but the kind one would naturally expect to find in a country which has only lately been devastated by a great war—the class of adventurers who naturally follow in the wake of a conquering army.\n\nThe better military element having been withdrawn, it was natural that the lower elements should for the time gain the upper hand, and the Japanese officials are beginning to realize that such a foundation for a Settlement is not one which is likely to conduce to prosperity.\n\nSo far as the Settlement is concerned, the Chinese will of course be compelled in the long run to recognize it; but they are hoping at present to enlist foreign sympathy and to endeavour thereby to obtain a righting of certain wrongs which they have undoubtedly sustained in the upset of the normal condition of things which followed as a natural result of the war.\n\nThe American Commissioner of Customs and the American Vice-Consul in Antung are inclined, I think, to make the most of the case against the Japanese and by fanning the flame of Chinese resentment to aggravate the state of affairs.\n\nIt appears to me highly probable that the Magistrate Kao did accede to the terms of the Japanese in acquiring the Settlement, and whether he did so from force of circumstances or from the fact that he was in collusion with the Japanese is a matter in which there is some room for doubt.\n\nIt is certainly true that certain Chinese officials have not failed to fill their pockets at the time when the pockets of their own countrymen were being emptied by the Japanese, and under these circumstances, and as they made no apparent stand against the Japanese at the time of the supposed acts of aggression, it seems to be rather a poor step on their part to try to enlist foreign sympathy at this hour.\n\nBriefly put, if, as I believe to be true, the Japanese did not mete out fair measure to the Chinese whom they expropriated, it was, I am inclined to think, in no small measure due to the laxity of the Chinese officials, who failed to take up a sufficiently strong attitude, and who were not above enriching themselves from the despoilers of their countrymen; but one cannot excuse the Japanese for their conduct on this account, though I think that circumstances are combining at the present moment to make the case of the Japanese appear in a much worse light than it really deserves.\n\nW. P. M. RUSSELL.\n\nAntung, December 16, 1907.\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nStatement of Wang Lien Tung (annexed to Report on Japanese Land Tenure at Antung).\n\n(Confidential.) (Translation.)\n\nTHE petitioner, Wang Lien Tung, a resident of Liutaokou, Antung, begs to solicit your kindness for a careful investigation into the details of a case which involves the violation of international law and the wilful giving of maltreatment, with a view to effecting a change for the better and the relief of the people from distress.\n\nIn the 1st year of the reign of Kuang Hsü (1874), when the land at Tung Pien, on the eastern frontier of Manchuria, was thrown open to cultivation, the father of the petitioner, accompanied by his wife and children, together with their belongings, packed in boxes and baskets, came to Liutaokou, Antung. There they built holes for dwellings and satisfied themselves with chaff. By exposing themselves to the weather, both hot and cold, and by means of constant planning and working, they were able to cultivate and hand down to their descendants a few mow (one-sixth of an acre) of land. Who foresaw that the petitioner's natal day had been ill-starred?\n\nFor unexpectedly, in the 30th year of Kuang Hsu (1904), Japan and Russia opened hostilities, and the land in his possession was devastated by the troops of the two belligerents one after the other.\n\nIt was in the 31st year that the Japanese put out wooden stakes over all the land at Liutaokou, and that, by the order of Mr. Kao, the Antung Magistrate, the title-deeds were produced for inspection and a survey of the land made by the Magistrate's subordinates. The object of this survey was unknown until the 8th moon of the same year, when the Japanese authorities, swayed by a strong passion of covetousness, demanded through the Magistrate the delivery of the title-deeds to the land and summoned the owners to appear before them.\n\nThe petitioner and other landowners lost no time in presenting themselves at the Military Administration Office to answer questions. In reply to their demands, we stated that a transfer of land, amounting to 10,000 mow (1,666 acres), from one country to another was an international affair of great importance, and one which the common people could not venture to make without the authority of their officials. The Japanese were angered at this statement, and they arrested the petitioner and others—four in all—and kept us in custody. We were tried several times a day, and were finally compelled to agree to sell the land and to sign the Agreement. We were also held responsible for the refusal of other owners to sell their land. The cause of our refusal was alleged to be our having been in league with the Russians. If we had persisted in our determination, we should have been compelled to confess to conspiracy with the Russians.\n\nIt was clear that the Japanese coveted the land and disregarded the rights of the petitioner and other owners, and that, if we refused to agree to their terms, we should certainly be put to death. We were thus reduced to this humiliating means of saving our lives, and silently wept as we signed the Agreement concluding the matter. Following this, the Japanese had other landowners arrested and locked up in a dark room, where they were also compelled to sign over their deeds in the same manner. A woman's signature was obtained in case the male members of the family were absent, and a servant was made to sign for his master were he away. The lamentations of the people—men and women, old and young—which continued at Liutaokou for several days, is beyond description.\n\nThe most pitiful part of the affair was that land whose market price varied between 300 and 400 taels per tien (1 acre) was taken at from 42 to 84 dollars. The common people were perfectly aware that they had suffered a great loss, but, owing to the harsh and cruel treatment they had frequently received from the Japanese...\n\n5",
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        "content_text": "# 2\n\n## Details of Length, &c.\n\nThe distance between the two ends is some 800 yards, and the soundings up to September, 1907, as shown in a map of Antung, prepared by Mr. A. Morrison, Acting Tide-Surveyor, who at present does the duties of Harbour-master, and who has made a careful survey of the river at this point, make the depth from the Korean side to the centre of the river to range from 10 to 15 feet, and from the centre of the river to the Chinese side to vary from 2 to 7 feet. Soundings show the low-water spring tide level,\n\n## Choice of Site.\n\nThe Japanese Vice-Consul, Mr. Miho, informs me that he understands that the engineers concerned have, after examination of the river at various points, come to the conclusion that this site is the best, though it is contended by others that a far more convenient site exists some little way up the river.\n\n## Effect of Bridge on Harbourage.\n\nThe present steamer anchorage stretches from immediately above the proposed site of bridge for some 500 yards up stream on the Korean or left side of the river, and the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs are situated above the site indicated for the bridge on the Chinese side at the south-west corner of the proposed site for a foreign Settlement.\n\nThe lower harbour limit at present corresponds with the line of the proposed bridge, but should a fixed bridge be constructed, the bridge will become the upper harbour limit, and the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs will probably be moved below the bridge.\n\nThe facilities for steamers, so far as harbourage is concerned, will be just as good below the bridge as they at present are above in respect of depth of water.\n\n## Advantages of the Bridge to the Japanese.\n\nSo far as the advantage of the bridge to the Japanese is concerned, it is explained by the Japanese Vice-Consul that it will be of service both strategically and commercially.\n\nThere is a season of uncertain duration, but sometimes continuing for two or three weeks, both at the beginning and at the end of the winter, when the passage of the river is at present entirely impossible, as the ice does not bear, and yet the crossing of boats is stopped. During this season a bridge would be of great value.\n\nIt must be remembered, however, that at present the line on the Korean side is broad gauge, while that on the Chinese side is narrow gauge, and therefore, until the gauge of the Mukden-Antung line is changed, the bridge will lack much of its utility. Mr. Miho said that it was intended to convert the latter line to the gauge of the former within the next two or three years.\n\nAfter the bridge is completed, and the railway line converted to a uniform gauge, the Japanese position will be strategically much strengthened, and the mobilization of troops will be very much facilitated.\n\nCommercially also, the Japanese will be in such advantageous circumstances as to be able to defy all competition in many directions in this part of Manchuria, more especially if the bridge is a fixed one.\n\nIn connection with the scheme it is contemplated to build a railway from Yongampo to connect with the through line from Seoul to Mukden, and goods carried by rail from Yongampo, and so into China, will, it is held, be liable to only one-third duty as railway-borne.\n\n## Relative Merits of a Fixed or Drawbridge\n\nFrom the Japanese point of view, Strategically considered, the Japanese are of opinion that a fixed bridge would be of greater advantage than a drawbridge, for the following reasons:\n\nA fixed bridge is less easily damaged by an enemy in time of war.\n\nIn time of war there might be serious opposition to the permanent closing of the bridge rendered necessary by mobilization, but such objections would have been cleared away beforehand by the construction of a fixed bridge,\n\n3\n\nCommercially considered, a fixed bridge would put Japan in a stronger position than a drawbridge, for, owning as she at present does all land fronting on the river on the Chinese side for a considerable distance below the bridge, she could, if she so chose, do great damage to the shipping of other countries, or even preclude the other countries from competing entirely.\n\nThe more the trade is developed the greater will be their share.\n\nThe Japanese, however, would do well to consider that they are likely to profit more largely by offering inducements to foreigners to share in the trade.\n\nMr. Miho says that the question of a fixed bridge or a drawbridge is at present not finally decided, and that the final decision as to this question, or as to a possible change of the site of the bridge, rests with the Railway Department of the Japanese Government at Seoul, and he believes that the final decision will be very shortly made, and that work is likely to commence in the spring.\n\n## General Effect of Fixed Bridge on Waterway.\n\nThe Yalu River is a constantly shifting volume of water and soundings require to be taken frequently, owing to the incessant changes of the shoals and sandbanks. Though steamers drawing 9 feet and junks of a similar draught reach Antung, it is not possible for craft of this size to venture much further, and smaller junks or launches could, no doubt, pass under the bridge by lowering their masts or funnels. The timber-rafts for Antung are broken up above the Chinese city, but the larger number of rafts go down river below the proposed bridge, and account would have to be taken of these in the plan of building the bridge, as otherwise the rafts might suffer much inconvenience and the bridge much damage.\n\n## American View of Question.\n\nThe American Vice-Consul-General Mr. Arnell informs me that he has represented to the Consul General at Mukden the danger of a fixed bridge to the interests of international trade and especially the import trade of the United States in oil and flour, which might be driven out by the Japanese. Though no action has been taken, so far as he is aware, to make the Japanese Government cognizant of the fact that the United States' Government would view with disfavour the construction of a fixed bridge, he believes that his Government might be ready to raise objections should any chance of success appear.\n\nThe American name is, however, at present not in great favour among the Japanese, and it is doubtful whether their objections would carry much weight, and it seems probable that the American Government would prefer to wait for others to make the first move.\n\nEven then it is not at all certain that the matter would be pursued by them.\n\n## The Chinese View.\n\nThe Chinese are, of course, most seriously affected by the proposal to construct a fixed bridge, but here again it does not appear that they have voiced their views officially to the Japanese, and the Japanese are not at all likely to consider unofficial expressions of opinion.\n\nThe large Chinese junk traffic will be ruined by the fixed bridge. The junk anchorage is at present above the bridge, and as junks of a large size will not be able to pass under a fixed bridge, they will have to discharge their cargo below, at a distance from the native city, instead of as now at a point conveniently near.\n\n## British Shipping will be seriously affected by Fixed Bridge.\n\nConsidered from the point of view of British trade, the very serious objection to a bridge which is fixed is that British shipping may, in the future, become permanently hampered by lack of wharfage accommodation.\n\nThe whole river front for a distance of over 2,000 yards below the bridge on the Chinese side is now appropriated by the Japanese Railway. 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        "content_text": "DESP.\n\nDATE\n\nNO.\n\nHongkong\n\n1916\n\nVOL. 1\n\nSUBJECT\n\n1\n\nTel.\n\n12\n\nConf.\n\n4 Jan Reorganization of P.W. Dept.\n\n15\n\n6\n\nConf.\n\n20\n\nI\n\nM\n\nA\n\n7\n\nTel.\n\n//\n\n26\n\n28\n\n12\n\n4\n\n29\n\n30\n\n31\n\n33\n\nConf.\n\nTel.\n\nConf.\n\n*\n\nSec.!\n\n35\n\n· Conf\n\nTel.\n\n13\n\n14\n\nA\n\n15 4\n\n*\n\n17\n\n4\n\nļ\n\n18\n\nA\n\n39\n\nConf.\n\n4\n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpn. Opium Smuggling.\n\nRegistered Companies with Preponderant Foreign Interest.\n\nNaturalization of Eur. N.A. Johanssen.\n\nLeave of S.B.B. Tucker/Eldredry.\n\nApply for Promotion by Capt. J. Dickson.\n\nIndian Sedition.\n\nMatilda Hospital.\n\nLanding & Treatment of Succo Gaupp & Co. in Kleinjung.\n\nNetherlands Trading Society.\n\nKorean Customs Tariff.\n\nLocking of Chinese \"Customs Stations.\n\nSham Shui Po Improvement Scheme. Corres. between Ferd. Flashoff &\n\nOrdinance 31 of 1915\n\nBonus to Capt. G.A. Walker.\n\nHung Shun-lung.\n\nIndian Sedition.\n\nEstimates, 1916.\n\nOrdinance 35 of 1915.\n\nCrimes in the New Territories.\n\nAnglo German War.\n\nMessrs Arkell & Douglas.\n\nLiquidation of German Firm.\n\nRemoval of German Application from Enemy Firm.\n\nOrdinance 33 of 1915\n\nAction by With Sufficient against Six F.T. Riggott.\n\n(47615A) Wt 12218A/2108 2000 10/28 H & J, Ld Cp 113",
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        "content_text": "Page 101\n\nHONG KONG\n\n8130 C.O. 8130 REC. 9 FEB 16\n\n35 Euros Arkell & Messrs Arkell & Douglas.\n\n1916 14 Jan. Transmits copy letter from Messrs. H. Wisking to On\n\nAtt. Gent with regard to the objection to shipments financed through the H.K. + Shanghai Bank.\n\nPermission has been granted for goods already ordered to come forward. I shall inform Messrs.\n\ndat to the objection mentioned Who are not intermediaries\n\nwith or mentioned Who s irv arb\n\nHamburg fires the 'estry copy Black List to F.T.D.\n\nCorney ce but they are ales and ask for obesons Cu27\n\n23/12/16 to F.T.D, copy Ansd.\n\nCono 5. Conf. 15 April\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nB07 (00002) WI. 35800-6. 48,000 12/15. B M & 3.\n\n24.2.16\n\nPage 101\n\n...\n\nLast previous Paper.",
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        "content_text": "No.\n\n35.\n\nSir,\n\nREC\n\n8130\n\nRock 19 FEB 16\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONGKONG, 14th January, 1916.\n\nI have the honour to enclose a copy of a letter addressed by Messrs. Harry Wicking & Co. to the Attorney General, with regard to the firm of Messrs. Arkell & Douglas of New York, in which they state that there is some difficulty as to future orders.\n\nPermission has been granted for the goods already on order to come forward, and for the shipments to be financed through the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation; but I should be glad to learn what the objection is to Messrs. Arkell & Douglas.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n80.\n\n—\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "HARRY WICKING & Co.\n\n£130\n\nREC:\n\nSir,\n\nRey S FEB 16\n\nHongkong, 3rd January, 1916.\n\nIn reference to our interview we beg to state that we have for some time ordered American Goods through the firm of Messrs. Arkell & Douglas Inc., 44 Whitehall Street, New York, U.S.A., financing same by Credits through the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. As informed you, there is now some difficulty as to the exact nature of which we are not acquainted with but we understand our future orders will have to be placed with another firm.\n\nWe beg to hand you a list of goods now on order some of which are no doubt already on the way and we shall be glad if you will authorise the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation to allow the balance to come forward from Messrs. Arkell & Douglas otherwise we shall be placed in a serious difficulty with our Chinese clients to whom we have to deliver the goods. The goods are all manufactured in America and we receive the original manufacturers' invoices.\n\nWe enclose a letter from Messrs. Arkell & Douglas showing for your information the branches of the firm on the letter paper.\n\nWe have, etc.\n\nsd. Harry Wicking & Co.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Attorney General,",
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        "content_text": "Page 54\n\nVIRI YAAN\n\nAgencies.\n\nntévideo.\n\nrnambuco.\n\n165\n\nARKELL & DOUGLAS, Inc.\n\n302. moli\n\nCRIO AJAJA of ed ew weivredni zwo of ConSTSIST AI\n\nTie\n\nİç mi bo vorrid 2000, пecite A Esrecro erit amon ToÎ svari\n\n.10% 1911 „Vasıt2 [Isnetim 4..ami anĚzvolí » Iladta etanol\n\nfeed one : nox, not arid rigvor'd edibert wi ameamiononit\n\nJINSILIIL SPOn won ai starið „noy Larmatni Bå „moiterogro)\n\ndud na wathisupos Jon 918 ew muide to tudatosxa and\n\nmadone vidis 1998lq aj os avel flow wrakto sudut quo brede\n\nTULIO 10 FCN sboo to Jaif a won when of gad\n\ncely at Ilove an imb yow and no vusele Jduct a 978 doinw\n\nOF NALS \"TOGIOû (milnad ien: 16 no.. noë ont eaizoritus IIiw\n\nbal vợt a Ilsh...,#198el rozi biowiat 80:or of eonnied und wolle\n\nTUO Nзi» vtíuDITIIL SUOİT-nazi bsosiy sú II~ ST BRITTONdo\n\n.eboo, orið 19vila, od svosi ar Dorm of -úneilo enenido\n\nInit ito and eviebat sw une boite: Axi ustudostumam Ils ere\n\n.Recċovni atatudɔałunem\n\nJane selvol á ÍÍGNIA „Stevek zort Tattal a anolona el\n\n„Tagną 19JJHÍ exit no mit end to tanqueid erið noidɛcrolni twov to?\n\n„oda „uved at\n\n.00 2\n\nnizoi'' 118H\n\nlo de Janeiro.\n\nparaiso.\n\n18.\n\nrbados.\n\ninidad. rgica.\n\nne.\n\nrt Natal.\n\nMessrs. Harry Wicking & Company,\n\nDear Sirs,\n\nHongkong, China.\n\nNew York,\n\n13th November, 1915.\n\nWe beg to advise having made shipment for your account per S.S. \"Kathlamba\". We enclose herewith manufacturers' invoices, copy of bill of lading, and our invoice A-5411 £2,363.06.\n\nWe have deducted from this amount the amounts of our credit note\n\nNow, 815 813 808 9.37 39.32 46.05 $2,268.36 we have\n\nas per enclosed copies, and for the balance drawn on you as per enclosed financial advice, and commend our draft to your usual kind care and protection.\n\nWe trust that these goods will reach you safely and turn out to your entire satisfaction, and awaiting your further favors, we remain,\n\nVery truly yours,\n\nArkell & Douglas, Inc.\n\nSd. R. G. Gauld.\n\nPage 54",
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        "content_text": "VOL. 2\n\nFROM Foreign Track Dept.\n\nDATE : \n\nSUBJECT\n\nFROM\n\n30 men. Registered Companies with Preponderant Enemy Interest Foreign Trade Dept.\n\n3/ Tuess Oppermann & Co, Havana.\n\nMinistry of Munitions & April. Antimony Regulus to New York.\n\nColonial Office\n\nForeign Trade Dept. 8\n\n14\n\n1\n\n15\n\n14 A\n\nWar Trade Dept.\n\n18\n\nBd. of Trade. (Currency Dept.) General Post Office\n\n\"Foreign Trade Dept. 19-\n\nParliamentary Counsel. Rubber + Tin Export Committee\n\nForeign Trade Dept.\n\nCustom House\n\n29\n\nA\n\nThay.\n\nk\n\n· 10\n\nForeign Trade Dept.. 12 a\n\n+\n\n154\n\nWar Trade Dept. 18 General Post Office 19- Ministry of Munitions\n\nWar Trade Dept.\n\n10\n\nA\n\n23\n\nLondon Chamber of Commerce 26\n\nQuail Service via Siberia.\n\nGuess Arkell & Douglas, New York.\n\nCorrespondence with Enemy Subject in Japan. Querors B. Rigold & Bergmann. German Trading after the war.\n\nHongkong Tallow.\n\nTallows, Peanut Oil & Wood Oil.\n\nBd. of Trade Certificate Regulations.\n\nQuail Service via Siberia.\n\nIncos Erdmann & Sielcken, Batavia.\n\nImportation of Unset Diamonds from U.K. Direction der Disconto-Gesellschaft. Export of Tin.\n\nDetention of Cabled Corres. of Sulzer Freres.\n\nPfister\n\nRe-exported Consignments of Tea.\n\nDetention of Correspondence.\n\nShipment of Feathers.\n\nHemp to Switzerland.\n\nAgencies.\n\nFinancial Responsibility for Brit. P.O.)\n\nGroundnut Oil to Siam.\n\n\"Export of Oils to Shanghai, Tahiti & San Francisco\n\nPeanut Oil to San Francisco.\n\nProhibition (Form of Exports of Silk. Foreign Trade Dept. 29 @ Importation & Exportation Laws (2) Black List? @ Importation & Exportation Laws Black List\n\nShipment of Feathers.\n\nWar Trade Dept. Foreign Trade Dept.\n\n30.\n\nA\n\nSilk from Canton to U.S., France & Russia. Payment of Dividends to Enemy Subjects.\n\nDATE 5-\n\nSUBJECT\n\nCanton - Kowloon Railway.\n\nForeign Trade Dept. June licence to Tnt Reif to Trade. Hongkong & Shanghai Bank.\n\nWar Trade Dept. Hongkong & Shanghai Bank 6\n\nCol. Nursing Assocn. Foreign Trade Dept. War Trade Dept.\n\nJ\n\n9\n\n10\n\n12\n\n&\n\n17\n\nf\n\nGeneral Post Office Foreign Trade Dept. 19\n\nWar Trade Dept.\n\n4\n\nMinistry of Munitions, 22 -\n\nCustom House\n\nForeign Trade Dept.\n\nWar Trade Dept.\n\nColonial Office Foreign Trade Dept. Church Missionary Society. Foreign Trade Dept.\n\n14 \"\n\n30 *\n\nCoconut Oil from British Possessions ! Export of Raw & Waste Silk.\n\nMiss L. T. Jacobs.\n\nZurich.\n\nQuesore Liebermann & Walckli, Rotterdam\n\nEucas W. Heijblom, H.K. & Eucas M. Van Swyndragt,\n\nChina Beans & Sesamum to San Francisco.\n\nProhibition of Silk.\n\nTranshipment of Silk.\n\nBritish Postal Agencies in China.\n\nShipment of Feathers.\n\nChinese mica to Japan. Export of Lead.\n\nOpium Smuggling.\n\nImportation of Set Diamonds.\n\n1 July Shipment of Feathers.\n\nTranshipment of Silk to Netherlands India. Inter-Deptl. Conference\n\nConsignment of Opium Traffic.\n\nDiamonds.\n\nProperty of the Rhenish Mission.\n\nShipment of Porcelain & Embroideries.\n\nShipment of Feathers.\n\n10 H\n\n// \"\n\n12\n\nmunitions\n\n13\n\n4\n\nOpium Conference.\n\nMin. of Munitions\n\n£2\n\nA\n\nMin.\n\nof Custom House\n\nForeign Trade Dept. 27\n\nA\n\nWar Trade Dept.\n\n284\n\n×\n\nJull. Banking Corpn. 29\n\nDynamite & Detonators.\n\nExport of Lead.\n\n© N.S. Toves & Co. © Carmichaels Clarke.\n\nH\n\n\"Sourabaya.\n\nOil. Cocoa Oil & Linseed Oil to Bangkok\n\ngoods\n\non 5.5. \"Sigmaringen\".\n\n[47612A] Wt 12218/2108 2000 10/28 H & J, Ld Gp 113",
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        "content_text": "VOL. 3\n\nFROM DATE SUBJECT\n\nLead U.K. on S. S. \"Sigmaringen. from Shipment of Feathers.\n\nCentral Agency Ltd. 29 July Goods Wan Trade Dept. I ang. Danish Trade Office War Trade Dept. Foreign Trade Defed. 8-\n\nCentral Agency Ltd. of munitions quin. Colonial Office 34 A 10 \" 14 a 4 War Trade Dept. Foreign Trade Dept. 15+ War Trade Dept. 16\" Foreign Trade Dept. 21- Rubbers Tim Export Celler 24 m\n\nFROM DATE SUBJECT\n\n5 Oct. Vacancies on A Nursing Staff. Vacancy for Asst. Mistress.\n\nOve 5.5. \"Kaque\". Qriend Tobacco Co. Certificates of Origin & Interest. Recorde Col. Nursing Assocu. Board of Education. Foreign Trade Dept. A 104 Goode 12 * War Trade Dept. Foreigne 16 4 18 4 # 23 a 24 \" Wood Tax\n\nCargo Detained ex \"Kafue\" Min. of Munitions 26 \" Export of Cinematograph Filmes+ Grams. I Falshan Light & Power Co., Hongkong. Reconstructed China Companies. Gooda on S.S. \"Sigmaringen.\n\nPig Fron & Euanganese Ore for U.S. Employment of Imported Labour in Franc Pig Frou & manganese Ore to San Francisco. quers Viegelmann & Co. Embroideries for Export of Pig. Lead. Sugar. Straits Time to Tokyo. Foreign Trase Depd. 25: Trading with Encosts Arkell & Douglas.\n\nJeneral Post Office War Trade Dept. min. of munitions 26 x 28. 29. 31 A A - 7 Sept. Foreign Trade Dept. 12 'n Rubber & Tim Exports C'Hee 13 ~ General Port Office Wan Trade Dept. Foreign Tuin. of munitious 14 A : Allotment до Frew Posues.\n\nConsignment of machinery to manila. Pension of Officers in British Postal agencies Telge et Schrocter, Tiendoin. Exportation of Pig Iron & Steel Products. quachivery for manila. Straits Tin to Kobe. Delivery of Postal Packels to Every Firms in Lard to Peru.\n\n# 14 16 m Cargo ou 5.5. \"Kafue\":\" 18 K Lead. 21 A 22 A Foreign Trade Dept. Banque Belge pour l'Etranger 23 Colonial Office Ba...que Belge pour l'Etranger 29 A Export of Jess to Vogelstein « C. M + China Association General Food Office Col. Hurving Aavocu. Foreign Trade Dept. Colonial Office Foreign Trade Dept. Inland Revenue War Trade Dept. Foreign 雌 War 雌 4 # + 30 \" int Wood Oil, Coconut Oil etc to Kobe & Manila. Orient Tobacco Co. on 5.5. Hokuto maru' 4 queros Vogelodein & Co. of New York. Eneury Trade marks. Employment of Appl. Cargo ou expe Tut J. H. Cooper. Nursing Staff. \"Kague\"\" Ordinance 41 of 1912. Boycott Prevention\n\n1 Nov. Certificates of 3 4 17 4 23 A Shanghai. Col. Audit Dept. Colonial Office 29 A my New York. Acceptance of Cargo by Steamship Lines. Shipment of Belgian goods. Transport Work in Tucsopotamia. e pour l'Etranger 4 Oct. Shipment of Window Glass. 30\" Income Taxe of margarine for Wood Tar ou Interest. Zur F. Browne. Juanila. the Hokuto Euarce\" Emargarine for manila. Export of certain Oits. Wood Oil for Stockholm . Leard. Annual Abstract Account, 1914. Facilities for Building New Ships in the\n\n(47612A) Wt 12218/2108 2000 10/28 H & J, Ld Gp 113",
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        "content_text": "It would be preferable that all Government mails passing between this country and Weihaiwei and also the Government mails to and from Hong Kong should at any rate during the period of the war be sent by the Suez route. I am therefore to enquire what time is actually saved, under present conditions, by using the Siberian route instead of the service via Marseilles for Hong Kong and Weihaiwei. I may add that the Governor of Hong Kong has recently adopted the practice of sending practically all his despatches by sea, and forwarding duplicates by the Siberian route. This practice will, of course, be discontinued if it is decided to abandon for the present the use of the Siberian route for the transmission of Government mails.\n\nI am, etc.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nCopy mems.\n\nGov. Conf. 15th April\n\nHONG KONG\n\n17026\n\nMess? Arkell & Fords\n\nREC 119\n\nREGE 10 APR 16\n\nDouglas\n\nCopy\n\nCorrexe respo9.\n\nForm is not on\n\nLest that it will suffice to\n\nBlack List + 7.0. do not\n\nHatutory entecipate will be included in\n\nAf Saxon\n\nFor Patio Pin\n\nI think 'sand copy of T.S.H.\n\nbut one)\n\nF.T.D. say to Gov. Conf. adding\n\nim this letter\n\ncust 11/4/16\n\nAt once\n\nArl 12.4.16\n\nlast emel what\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nPage 120\n\nPage 121",
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        "content_text": "C\n\nAny further communication on the subject, please quote No. 21798/45\n\nThe Controller,\n\nForeign Trade Department.\n\nTelephone: Gerrard 5641,\n\nLANCASTER House,\n\nST. JAMES',\n\nS.W.\n\nApril 8th 1916\n\nSir,\n\nW.T.D. Jan. 6.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 28th February No.8130, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to forward herewith for the information of Mr. Secretary Bonar Law copy of certain correspondence regarding Messrs. Arkell & Douglas Inc., New York, and to say that this firm is not on the Black List, and that, as at present advised, this Department does not anticipate that it will be included in the Statutory List.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\nWalter Townley\n\nfor the Controller.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "17026\n\nREG 10 APR 16\n\nJanuary\n\nREC\n\n198020/X.\n\n121\n\n1910.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir Ürey to transmit herewith for the consideration of the War Trade Department a copy of a letter received from Messrs. Arkell and Douglas, of 22 Exchange Place, New York, and 40 Old Broad Street, London, regarding the suspicions entertained against them by His Majesty's Government. Sir L. Gray would be glad to receive any observations which the Chairman of the Trade Clearing House may wish to make on this subject.\n\nA copy of this letter is being sent to the Home Office.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nThe Secretary\n\nto the War Trade Department.",
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        "content_text": "COPY. 198020.\n\nArkell & Douglas, Inc.\n\n122\n\nPEC:\n\n17026\n\n40, Old Broad Street,\n\nLONDON. E.C. December 23rd 1915.\n\nJFS/PS.\n\nThe Under-Secretary,\n\nForeign Office,\n\nWhitehall, S.W.\n\nSir,\n\nIn accordance with the suggestion made to the writer, who called at your office this morning, we beg to advise cable just received from our New York House reading as follows:-\n\n\"Advised Foreign Office placed us on black list cause 'unknown British Consul here has cabled stating we are 'conforming to regulations only shipping to firms 'approved also stating agreeable comply rules issued Foreign Office see them immediately give any assurances necessary secure removal our name cable if can and any 'way.\n\nThe writer would like to say that he is anxious to comply as promptly as possible with these instructions, and trusts you will see your way to put him in possession of the facts with regard to your complaint, in order that he may know what the trouble is, and satisfy you (as he believes he can) and give assurances if necessary. We here have no confirmation of the report referred to, nor are we aware of any circumstances which would be likely to influence you in taking such a step. You will, however, appreciate by the terms of the cable, that whatever the cause of the trouble, it is the desire of our Head Office to put matters right, and we have their authority to do anything that is necessary to secure the removal of their name from the black list, if the report is correct.\n\nWith this object in view, the writer is at your disposal at any time.\n\nAwaiting your commands,\n\n(Signed) J.F. PETERS.\n\nWe beg to remain, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\np.p. ARKELL & DOUGLAS INCORPORATED.\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "30358/16.\n\nSir,\n\nREC!\n\nC\n\n123\n\n17026\n\nREGE 10 APR 16\n\n31st January 1918.\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 6th instant, No. 198020/1, regarding the firm of Arkell and Douglas of London and New York, I am instructed by Lord Emmott to forward for the information of Secretary Sir E. Grey copy of a memorandum of the Trade Clearing House dated the 18th instant, dealing with the subject.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\netc., etc., etc.\n\nForeign Office.\n\nHGB/VDW.",
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        "content_text": "12\n\nJEL/KV.\n\nTRAD\n\nof CLEARING\n\n124\n\nNew York.\n\nThe New York firm,\n\nit be the \"Dannyia List\".\n\n11 Place,\n\n\"ang Blast List, unless\n\nOn the 10th September, the London house wrote to Udolpho Wolfe & Co., Zalmstraat 15, Rotterdam\n\na letter which was submitted to the Home Office (Ref. 9401 of 14.9.15).\n\nAn explanation furnished by the London house to the Home Office on the 18th September, 1915, (Ref. 10010) stated that the letter contained \"an order sent in the usual course of business\n\nof Rotterdam but through a slip the order was made out to Ludwigshafen where the firm formerly had a branch.\"\n\nIn support of this explanation, they enclosed a certified copy of the certificate of incorporation of the Udolpho Wolfe Co.\n\nThis certificate was no doubt returned to the firm but it referred to incorporation in the United States.\n\nThere appeared to be no reason to doubt this explanation at the time and the letter was apparently returned to the sender.\n\nHowever, further investigation of the circumstances inclines us to question the bona fides of the transaction as follows: –\n\nThe Deputy Chief Censor, Australia, has reported (i) \"Udolpho Wolfe & Co., Rotterdam\" (not identified) is acting as intermediary in correspondence for V. Wolfe & Co., Hamburg, and another Hamburg firm. (ii) The New York house of Arkell & Douglas is acting as intermediary in correspondence for the Udolpho Wolfe Co. of Hamburg. (Reference to X. 2876, 1.2.3. 78169).\n\nPossibly this information has led to some action on the part of the authorities of which the New York house of Arkell & Douglas is now cognizant.\n\nThe Udolpho Wolfe Company of Rotterdam is not traceable in any of the directories available to us either at the address given in the intercepted letter from Arkell & Douglas, viz. Zalmstraat 15, or elsewhere in Rotterdam.\n\nThe address in question is that of a firm of distillers called Blankenheym & Nolet, occupying Nos. 3 to 15a, Zalmstraat. (Duyker Telephone and Street Directories for 1915).\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "14523/X\n\n126\n\nForeign Office\n\nFebruary 28 1916.\n\nGentlemen:-\n\nWith reference to your letter of December 23rd last respecting a report that this Department had placed your New York house on a \"Black List\" and enquiring what action you should take to ensure the removal of their name from that list, I was directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform you that the report in question is incorrect.\n\nMessrs Arkell and Douglas Inc.\n\n40, Old Broad Street,\n\nLondon,\n\nI am,\n\nGentlemen,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,",
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        "content_text": "M.O. thing 17026\n\nC D\n\nR 13 APR\n\n0.\n\n127\n\nA\n\nDRAFT.\n\nAkry Conf.\n\nGov. In James\n\nMINUTE.\n\n(5330)\n\n28r. Betta 12/4/46 Mr. Wonton 12/4/46.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nMr. Steel-Maitland,\n\nMr. Bonar Law.\n\nMeans. Of it. Cl. Honne\n\nlast emot but one\n\nCMA\n\nWestern of & Whit\n\n470\n\n17126\n\nLin\n\n18th Apr. 1916\n\nI have it to well the\n\nreck of you\n\ndest. ho $5\n\nThe 16th Jan. and\n\nto hausenit\n\nto you\n\nThe\n\nthe Trade Clearing House\n\ncopy of\n\nmemorandum\n\nJ\n\nregarding\n\nThe firm of\n\nArkell and\n\nN. YouR.\n\n2. The\n\n& T. Dat which have\n\nbeen consulted in the matter.\n\nRonglas\n\nB\n\nwho hack",
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        "content_text": "Any further communication on the subject, please quote No. 70666/45, and address The Controller, Foreign Trade Department. Telephone: Gerrard 8640.\n\nPage 456\n\nFOREIGN TRADE DEPARTMENT,\n33 LANCASTER HOUSE,\nST. JAMES',\nS.W.\n\nREG 26 AUG 161\nAugust 2 1916.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter 37697/1916 of the 19th instant, I am directed by Viscount Grey of Fallodon to say, for the information of Mr. Secretary Bonar Law, that he sees no objection to the reply suggested by the Governor of Hong Kong in the 1st paragraph of his despatch of the 16th June or to the renewal of business relations between Messrs. Harry Wicking & Co. and Messrs. Arkell and Douglas.\n\nI am, Sir, Your most obedient, humble Servant, for Controller.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, The Colonial Office, London. S.W.\n\nPage 456",
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        "content_text": "तु\n\n(\n\nC. D\n\n8.30 AUG.\n\n10.31\n\nDRAFT.\n\n„KONG.\n\nZIDENTIAL\n\nGov. May.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nF.T.D. 40533/ Hong Kong.\n\n457\n\nSir,\n\nMr. Beckett, 30/8/16.\n\nDowning Street,\n\nAugust, 1916.\n\nMr. Robison 30/8\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Grindle.\n\nMr. Lambert.\n\nMr. Read.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nMr. Steel-Maitland,\n\nMr. Bonar Law,\n\nLF required.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Confidential despatch of the 16th June with regard to trade with Messrs. Arkell and Douglas,\n\nI approve of your proposed reply to Messrs. Harry Wicking and Company, and that I see no objection to the renewal of relations between Messrs. Arkell and Douglas and Messrs. Harry Wicking and Company.\n\nI append the reply which I propose to give to Messrs. Harry Wicking and Company in similar terms.\n\nbáva, etc.\n\nyou pripora\n\nto give to in similar wees.\n\n \n2\n\n \nI offere\n\ned that) i",
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        "title": "CO129-540-9 Educational vacancies- applications and appointments 6-6-1932 - 7-9-1932",
        "content_text": "& enclosing the duplicate of the forepart which forms enclo No 2 to (3). And prepare one for Master (Science) for the Assistant.\n\nАбраше ста 20.6.32 Hulder 17arbell 2016. 21.6.32 bam Sruthi T. B/E Me 2nd. cncl. in 3 Cens\n\n30 JUN 1932\n\nI was rung up by the Office of Special Enquiries and Reports of the Board of Education with reference to our letter of the 30th of June. The Paper of Particulars which we enclosed, which was that forwarded by the O.A.G. does not contain certain particulars which the Board of Education would like to have before advertising the vacancy. They are anxious to advertise it immediately, before the end of the school term.\n\nThey would like to have information on the following points:-\n\n(1). Would a candidate who possessed some qualification equivalent to that of the higher diploma of the National Froebel Institute be acceptable or only one possessing the actual higher diploma?\n\n(2)",
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