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PORRIG OPPICE,

OUT FILE

S.#.1.

13th May, 1942.

With reference to previous correspondence on the subject of the affairs of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company Limited, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Eden to inform you that the following telegram was recently received from the Swies Chargé d'Affaires hanghai through His Majesty's Minister at Berne:-

"A l'occasion des possibilités d'evacuation les "ačministrateurs de la Kailan Mining Co. à Tientsin, "desirent savoir si le gouvernement Britannique "éleverait des objections à ce que dee sujets "Britanniques continuent à étre employés de la société "mise sous controle Japonais. Les employés de cette "société estiment d'une part que leur maintien "assurerait la sauvegarde de certains interêta "importants, mais ils oraignent d'autre part que leur "activité ne soit considerée comme favorisant l'economie "de guerre Japonaise bien que la production puisse être "continué sans leur prezence ile demandent que la "Société Chinese Mining Engineering Company à Exeter "goit informée de ces faits et que des instructions leur "soit telegrafiées".

2. In reply, His Majesty's Minister has been instructed to request the Swiss Government to inform the Managers of the Kailan Mining Administration of the

The Secretary,

Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, Limited,

11/16, Telegraph Street,

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