In
any
further communication on this subject, please quote
No. F 6780/3/10.
and address-
not to any person by name,
but to-
"The Under-Secretary of State,"
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.1.
sir,
RECEIVED 19 AUG 1927
FOREIGN OFFICE.
S.W.1.
17th August, 1927.
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I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain
to refer to your letter of the 10th August, with enclosures,
on the subject of the surtaxes which the Nanking Government
propose to levy upon foreign trade, and to state that the
views expressed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies
and the Governor of Hongkong have received his careful
consideration.
2.
Foreign Office telegram No. 488, of the 29th July,
to which you refer in your letter under reply, has been
amplified in a further telegram to Sir M. Lampson, No. 4
of the 5th August, from which it will be seen that Sir
Austen Chamberlain agreed that concerted resistance should
be offered to the proposed taxe s. Subsequent telegrams from
Shanghai and Canton, copies of which have been communicated
informally to the Colonial Office afford grounds for hope
that some success may attend the measures which have been
under discussion.
3.
Sir Austen Chamberlain is alive to the effect which
this taxation may have on the trade of Hongkong and South
China, and this aspect of the matter will continue to
receive his close attention.
4.
With reference to the suggestion as to the use of
force in the first paragraph in Sir C. Clementi's telegram,
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
which/