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Jonclosure 3.
British Legation,
Peking.
September 9th. 1918.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of Your Excellency's despatch No. 559/1910 of the 9th. ultimo
on the subject of the Anglo-Chinese Customs Agreement and to
express my regret that I am unable to give any assurance that
this Agreement will come into operation on 1st. January next.
When I received the Chinese text of the
Agreement forwarded in your despatch of 27th. April last and
compared it with the text obtained by me from the Wai Chiao Pu
I discovered a number of important differences between the
two.
Just as your Government had no Chinese text so, it
appears, the Chinese Government had no English text, and on
making private enquiries of the Inspector-General of Customs
I made the further discovery that in October last he had been
instructed by the Chinese Government to endeavour to secure
through this Legation a number of alterations in the text as
negotiated at Hongkong. These instructions he had decided to
ignore on the ground that some of the alterations were not
acceptable to himself and that all of them were certain to
meet with rejection at the hands of the British Government.
Sir Francis Aglen had had no knowledge of
the correspondence between this Legation and the Wai Chiao Pu
on the subject of the addition of the postal clause and the
early conclusion of the Agreement, but he at once recognised
the differences in the Chinese Government's text as corres-
-ponding to the alterations which he had been asked to secure.
Thus
is Excellency
Sir Henry May, K.C.H.G.,
Governor
etc.,
etc.. Hongkong.
etc..