In any further communication this subject, please quote
No. F 2217/11/10
and address--
not to any person by name,
but to-
The Under-Secretary of State,"
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.1.
Sir,
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FOREIGN OFFICE
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31st May, 1929.
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I am directed by Secretary sir Austen Chamberlain
to transmit herein copies of the telegram of the 1st Lay last
from the Governor of Hongkong to His Majesty's Linister at
Peking, on the subject of the draft Commercial Treaty with
China, and of sir Miles Lampson's telegrams of the 3rd and
14th May, in which attention is drawn to the consequences
(66) (17) which may ensue from the action which the Governor of
Hongkong has taken in this matter.
recured)
2. As Mr. Decretary Amery is aware, sir kiles
Lampson in paragraph 6 of his telegram No.15 of the 4th
January last, a copy of which is attached for facility
of reference, suggested that he should be provided with
a "cut and dried draft" of a commercial treaty, on the
analogy of the draft of the Tariff Autonomy Treaty of
last autumn, such as could be presented to the Chine se
authorities in order to serve as a basis of negotiations
in the near future. Sir Austen Chamberlain directs me
to point out that the chief consideration in preparing and
presenting this draft was the desirability of being able
to take prompt and practical steps to meet the long-standing
wish of the Chinese for the negotiation of new treaties on
a basis of equality and reciprocity, while preventing, if
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
possible