Extract from a letter regarding Pearson.
Lee's last letter is attached to this paper. It is the reply from Paris to the despatch enclosed herein.
19/5
Did the 2.O. understand that it would have been resisted? Eastern...
I Lucas 19/5 See also le 17.736 Htry Any.
The above despatch: 290 does not appear to have been sent to 2.O., but the Declaration referred to in it is at /. 10 of accompanying "Colonies Francaises" under which all foreign goods (except from a Contracting Country or Colony) are re-obilites.
The question arises is whether Manila sugar refined in Hong Kong is entitled to the privileges of Conventional tariff in Indo-China.
We have hitherto taken the view that it is not.
But write to 7.O. with reference to Lord Lansdowne's Despatch No. 66 Commercial - 19 Apr, and Monson's reply No. 131 Commercial.
It does not appear that the term used in Desp. 290 refers to the Declaration under which all goods from other than Conventional countries (with the exception of certain clauses) are excluded from Indo-China.
Men... for one. Sugar refined in Hong Kong and sent to Indo-China is entitled to the rights secured by Art. 4 of the Convention, whatever the...