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16th June, 1942.

Dear Gregory

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ith fe ence to your letter to Ashley Clarke T.:. 468e of the 23rd my about the ill Mining Administration, tanclose copy of a let er da ed the 1st June from the Chlause Ingineering and (ining Company Limited, together with a copy of our re ly of the 13th June lacing on record our views on their behaviour in undertaking to continue to ezh blebe ins after the outbreak of war between reat Britain. and Japan.

r. strick Young one of the Dictors of the Company called on Dir surice Teterson on the 1st June to discuss this qu stien. De Ma Clarly out of sympathy with the point of view of his Board of ir ctore and stated that he and tendered his resignation to them; clear whether or not it had b. accepted. what he had to say was briefly as follows.

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In his view it la essential that His Majesty's Goverment should act is concert with the Chin se Goverment in laying dow.. the olicy for the epis ta follow,

so that identical instructions me go to the Thin-se Compey from Chungking and to the Britian from London. Me erphasised the atriotic character both oi r. Natio And of the ex-naval .ffles. in charge of shipments rom the port. We no. ntained but the best olicy ould be to i ave things na ta y are, although hú samits the normly, to su, the least, of British subjects cominuing the work of an importat for the benefit of the Ja: am sc. His grounds for holding tais view are, firstly, that it is not bue production but the shipment of coal which is im ortant; ne mutin that Mr. Sathon and his ex-naval colleague can be rolled

2.5. Gregory, sq.,

Trading with the knemy Department.

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