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As regards likin on railborne traffic, I
enclose for Your Excellency's information an abstract of des-
-patches which I have addressed to Sir Edward Gray since my
No. 123 of March 16th., mentioned by you. As you will have
observed, my main object is to secure that British-owned goods imported or exported at Treaty Ports, whether seaports or inland and goods sent from one Treaty port to another, by rail, shall receive the same fixed treatment as waterborne goods under
Treaty regulations. The Chinese Government allege that likin
being levied under varying conditions in different localities,
special arrangements for the protection of the likin revenue must be made to suit each railway, and, no doubt, they will
put forward the same arguments in the case of the Canton-
-Kowloon. The question is difficult, and the ground might, I
think, be prepared for the consideration of it by a detailed
enquiry into the existing likin charges in the territory along
the route of the line from the frontier to Canton, but, so far
as we are concerned, it only affects foreign goods sent into
the interior of China, and foreign-owned native produce on its
way from the interior to a Treaty Port, which are not protected
by transit-passes. It is useful to remember that the difficulty
may possibly be settled before the railway is completed through a general acceptance by the Treaty Powers of the provisions of Article VIII of Sir James Mackay's Treaty. The first and only
Treaty port on the Canton Kowloon Railway being Canton itself, it would, in any event, appear desirable that some arrangement should be concluded with the Imperial Maritime Customs for the levy of the regulation duties in Kowloon, the alternative being a new Customs Station on the frontier, with the attendant delays
in the handling of traffic.
Mis Excellengy
I have etc.,
(sd.) J. X. Jordan.
Sir P. 3. D. Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.,
Hongkong.