Enclosuro No.1.attached.
Enclosures Nos. 2 and 3.
The English translation of these credentials
was then read.
His Excellenczi
Hr. laze in a preliminary conversation with me at Fountain Lodge handed me two emoranda of
which copies are here today. The first is headed
Rough Outline of suggested plan of co-operation
between the Hong Kong Government and the Chinese Maritime Customs for the safeguarding of China's Customs Revenue and for the securing of reciprocal
benefits to trade and commerce". The second is
headed A Translation of emorandum submitted to the
Ministry of Finance, and since approved". The second deals more generally with the question of smuggling
across all Chinese frontiers.
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Ir. laze: I would like Your Excellency to understand
these are mere skeletons, I had to make it brief,
for perusal.
His Excellency
I realise that.
(. Southorn then read documents
marked "B" and "C".
(Nos. 2 and 3 attached.
His Excellency
Enclosures
The next document I want to read is
a Memorandur hich I prepared some years ago giving
the history of the establishment in this Colony
of the Chinese Maritime Customs.
ineloste 10.4. attached was than road.
Enclosur
0.4,
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