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Embassy series. Ref.33/0.1/39 5/0 28

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332 Gloucester Building,

HONG KONG.

19th July, 1939.

(& 4 copies)

Copy to D.M.Chungking

P/L 16.

Dear George,

Your letter Embassy Series S/O 25 (35/52K/1939) of

the 19th June.

The ramifications and activities of Chinese Government

trading concerns in this colony is one of the various subjects

on which I should long ago have submitted an official despatch

had I had the opportunity of making the necessary investiga-

tions, and I very much regret that no such opportunity has

occurred, or seems likely to occur.

Meanwhile, I have of course had the question in mind

and I have discussed it when occasion served with people like

Witham and the tea exporters, Grimshaw of the Pekin Syndicate

who is concerned with wolfram, Zindel of the Arnhold Trading

Company, who still try to maintain an interest in wood oil

and other produce, Thomson of Carr, Ramsay & Company (Swatow)

would-be exporters of feathers, and various Chinese in the

Central Trust, the Purchasing Commission, and others including

Rogers, and I attach in memorandum form (in case it should be

of use for incorporation in a report) observations based on

the extract from Marker's letter which you enclosed and with

which I generally concur.

A.H.George Esquire, C.M.G.,

British Embassy,

SHANGHAI.

Yours sincerely,

(SIGNED) J.C. HUTCHISON.

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