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Sir,
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MECO
13 AUG 09
Under Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
S. W.
I em directed by the Board of Trade
to advert to your letter of 2nd March last (No.7440) on the subject of the proposed Convention with Japan for the mutual
protection of British and Japanese trade
marks in China and Corea, and in reply I
am to state that they concur in Sir E.
Grey's proposal to agree to the suggested
postponement of negotiations in this
connection so far as regards Corea.
The Board have carefully considered
the provisions of the Draft Convention
submitted by the Japanese Government to
the Government of France and suggested by
the former as a basis for negotiations with
His Majesty's Government, and they now
desire me to offer the following observa-
tions on the different Articles comprised
therein.
Article I. Subject to the omission
of the words "and Cores", Article I of the
British Counter Draft submitted to the
Japanese Government in August last seems
to cover all that is contained in Arts.
I and III of the Draft Franco-Japanese
Convention.
It is equally explicit, and as a form
of words appears, to the Board to be an improvement upon those Articles.
Moreover it includes the useful pro-
vision that protection is to be accorded
to