to remind them that Great Britain was the first country to sign the new Commercial Treaty the object of which is to secure effective protection for British Trade Marks,
In my despatch No.46 of the 10th instant I had the honour to report to Your Lordship the failure of my endeavour to obtain redress for a fraudulent imitation of a handbill of Messrs Pears and Company Limited, although in my note to the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs copy of which accompanied that despatch complaining of the imitation I had used the argument suggested by Your Lordship,
In that instance the soap itself bore no fraudulent marks, and if it is the case, as stated by Mr Payne, that the boxes are made and the labels printed in Shanghai through the agency of German firms, it would seem that Shanghai is the place where any action ought to be taken,
I have no knowledge of fraudulent imitations of any other articles of British manufacture being now exported to