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CIPHER TELEGRAM

Euter 123

This message will not be distributed outside British Government Departments or Headquarters or re-transmitted, even in cipher, without being paraphrased. (Messages marked O.T.P. need not be paraphrased.)

17387

18 DEC 1945

C.A.17/B../1545

D.T.0. 151630/% Desp 160940 Dec 45

From:

War Office

To:

C in C HONG KONG

89651

....cipher (C.A.17)

15 Dec.

From Colonial Offide(.)

NIT.

Your cipher DTO 121730 dated 12 Dec(.)

RESTRICTED

Commercial Trading(.)

ONE(.) As import

licencing system is operating in Hong Kong should we

refuse export licences for unsponsored firms until an import licence number

is known in London or is the supply position in Hong Kong so desperate that

assistance should be given to all applicants for export licences from

United Kingdom to Hong Kong and that all available cargo should be sponsored without delay at exporters risk if shipped without import licence (.)

TWO(.) Will sponsored firms require import licences for goods they ship(.).

THREE(.) Please see my immediate following signal

C.6.(Tels)

Copies to:

D.E.(C.A.)

C.A.13(4)

C.A.17(6)

D.E. (C.4.)Registry

D.D.F.Mov (M) Q(M) 9b (2)

Foreign Office (Mr. A.L.Scott)

Colonial Office (Mr. T.W. Davies)

(Lt.Col. Chalmer s

(Mr. H.J. Bentham)

(Lt.Col. Wormal 28 Grosvenor St..1.) (2)

Ministry of War Transport (Mr. A.G. Pockett) (2)

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