The Board of Trade are notified by the Colonial Office that, according to telegraphic information from the Governor of Hongkong, complaints are being received there that some merchants in the Uniteu Kingdom are declining to complete or undertake orders from Hongkong merchants on the ground that such merchants are not on the white list of persons and bodies of persons to whom articles to be exported to China may be consigned under the terms of the Proclama: tion of September %, 1915.
Special attention is drawn to the fact that the Proclamation referred to does not apply to Hongkong; Hongkong is not affected by whit list regulations.
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