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facilitate through traffic on the Kowloon-Canton Railway, might with advantage be extended to shipping. You will remember that, in 1910, Governor Sir F.D. Lugard endeavoured to negotiate an Anglo-Chinese Convention for co-operation between this Government and the Chinese Laritime Customs with
a view to increasing the control over the launch and junk traffic between Hong Kong and China in order, on the one hand, to protect China's revenue and, on the other hand, to extend facilities to the trade of the Colony especially in the distribution of goods to non-treaty Ports. 1 refer you in this connection to the correspondence initiated by sir F.D. Lugard's
16121/10 confidential despatch of the 28th April, 1910, and ended by
F.o. 31880/21
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Mr. .S. Churchill's confidential despatch of the 21st July, 1921. i do not wish to see this proposal revived in the form which the draft Convention eventually took, but some of its provisions might in my opinion be usefully embodied in a settlement, if it were possible to negotiate one, between the Governments of Hong Kong and Canton.
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In conclusion I would again urge that a
purely negative attitude such as His Majesty's Government has for many years past adopted towards the successive administrations which have from time to time exercised regional authority in Kuang-tung will only serve to exacerbate relations between Hong Kong and Canton. The Canton Government wishes fugitive criminals to be extradited. It cannot be done, because neither the Canton Government nor any other Government is recognized in China. The Canton Government wishes to procure arms and ammunition, in order to
maintain
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