[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be
returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.
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F.5746/52/10.)
To CHINA.
Code telegram to Sir M. Lempson, (Peking),
Foreign Office, 12th November 1929, 5.25 p.m. No. 396. (R).
Following is text of telegram referred to in my
immediately preceding telegram:
We understand that Customs Agreement relating to trade from Hongkong to non-Treaty porte excludes British
flag. Chinese government thus secures in Hongkong
Treaty Port status without conceding Treaty Port rights
to British. Most dangerous concession will form pre-
cedent for ultimate exclusion British flag Coastal Inland
Waters elsewhere China, Compensating advantages offered
of privileged Factory Duty treatment to Hongkong factor.
100 is paper concession only in practice useless have
you been consulted interview Foreign Office telegraph
result,
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