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THIS

MARGIN.

NOTHING

ΤΟ

BE WRITTEN

IN

No. F 4133/888/10

Draft

J.F.B.

The Secretary,

The Chinese Engineering and Mining Co. Ltd.

Kent House, 11/16. Telegraph st London.

F.Ca.

PD 9.v1.42.

Mr. Dean

Copy to:

Mr. N. Young,

Treasury.

Trading with the

Enemy Branch.

[F1302 VF3471]

My Law

has seen A Emcurs.

021

Livi

F.0.

BUT BE

13 June

1942.

Sir,

I am directed by Mr. Secretary Eden

to acknowledge the receipt of your letter

of the 1st June enclosing a memorandum

on the subject of the arrangement made by

the manager of the Kailan Mining Adminis-

tration with the Japanese authorities at

Tientsin.

2. The views expressed by your

Board of Directors have been carefully

considered, but they do not lead this

Department to modify the opinion already

conveyed to you in the letters of the

26th February and the 13th May.

3. The fact remains that the Kailan have d mines producell/a large proportion of the

coking coal essential to the Japanese

All

steel industry and were of first class

military importance. Nevertheless, in

the circumstances already described, Mr.

Nathan gave an undertaking to the Japanese

authorities to be responsible for the

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