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FOREIGN OFFICES 21 OCT 05
October 20, 1905.
I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter 35987/05 of
the 16th instant respecting a conversation between
the Governor of HongKong and the United States Sec-
for War on the question of the duties on
sugar imported into the Philippine Islands.
retary
I am to point out that the statement made in
the note handed by His Excellency to Mr. Secretary
Taft, to the effect that Parties to the Brussels Su-
gar Convention are bound to penalise or prohibit
suger from countries having an excessive surtax is
contrary to the view held by His Majesty's Govern-
ment, and expressed in a despatch to His Majesty's
Chargé d'Affaires at Brussels of the 18th of March
last, to the effect that Contracting States are only
required by the Convention to apply countervailing
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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