it can be predpoved to register apeements between

coustituent

parts of the Compère with the

League..

Jo any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. T 10297/10297/582

And address-

not to any person by name,

but to-

"The Under-Becretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

Sir,

London, S. W.1.

C. 16976

4 SEP 1926

FOREIGN OFFICE.

3.W.1.

281

2nd September, 1926.

25.8.

26

J

With reference to your letter 14659/26 of the 14th ultimo containing a suggestion that an agreement between Canada and Eong- Kong relating to the insurance of parcel post should be registered with the Secretariat by the League of llations, I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to transmit to you

herewith a copy of a letter from the Dominions Office of the

17th Kay last and to refer to the Report No. 2, dated the 14th

June, of the Committee on Questions affecting Inter-Imperial

Relations, on which your department was represented.

2. In returning the original Parcel Post Agreement between

Janada and Hong-Kong for preservation in the archives of the

Colonial Office, I am to point out that Article 18 of the Covenant

of the League of Nations should not be regarded as applicable to

inter-Imperial agreements or arrangements.

I am,

Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

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