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NOTE FROM HIS MAJESTY'S AMBASSADOR AT NANKING TO HIS
EXCELLENCY DOCTOR WANG SHIH-CHIEH
Your Excellency,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 13th
January, 1948, in which you informed me that the Chinese Government approve of
the provisions annexed thereto with regard to the arrangements for the prevention of smuggling between Hong Kong and Chinese ports, and I have the honour to inform
Your Excellency that His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom likewise approve of the said provisions the text of which is annexed hereto.
2. With regard to the proposal contained in the second paragraph of Your
Excellency's note, I have the honour to add that His Majesty's Government in the
United Kingdom consider that note together with the present reply as constituting an
agreement between the two Governments in this matter.
Dated: 13th January, 1948.