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SECRET.
Copies to:-
Canton No. 301.
Peking No. 70.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG 9th August, 1927.
Sir,
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Enclo. No. 1.
On the 2nd August you telegraphed to me that
the new extra-treaty taxes proposed to be levied by the
Nanking Government on and after the 1st September, would
apparently, if imposed, extend to Kuang-tung and you asked
for my observations as to the effect on Hong Kong trade and
for any recommendations I might wish to make.
2.
The decision of the Nanking Government to
seize tariff autonomy in defiance of existing treaties
between China and the foreign Powers was proclaimed on the 20th July last. The nature of the proposals is made quite
clear in the attached pamphlet which contains (1) a
proclamation by the so-called Nationalist Government of the
Republic of China: (2) a law on the abolition of internal
transit duties: (3) a provisional law on national import tariff and (4) a law on excise duty. This pamphlet is being broadcast by the Cantonese Authorities and copies of it have been supplied to me by Colonel F. Hayley Bell, the
Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs for Kowloon and
District. It is apparently intended, as from the 1st
September, to abolish likin and all levies whatever in the
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.CH.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
nature