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What the Chamber, the Association
and this Government desire is that British marks registered
in England and Hongkong respectively and used in China
should be protected from piracy by Japanese in China,pend-
:
ing the possibility of concluding a Trade Marka Convention
with China herself. On this question the Convention as
drafted has no bearing and it would be almost valueless to
the British Merchant in Hongkong.
In this connection I venture to
draw Your Lordship's attention to my confidential despatch
of the 10th August, 1908 addressed to His Majesty's
Ambassador at Tokyo, a copy of which I forwarded to Your
Lordship in my confidential despatch of the 15th idem, and
to repeat that what is really required in the first instance
is not a Convention between the United Kingdom and Japan,
but the amendment of the Japanese law with regard to trade
marks as suggested by Sir Pelham Warren and Mr. Lowther,
whose opinion in that respect has the cordial support of
the local branch of the China Association. If such amend-
ments in the Japanese law were made, and the negotiations
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