Mr. Martin 11.8.30
Mr.
Gent 22.8
MY.
Ellis 12.8.
Sir C. XM. Bottomley.
Sir E. Harding.
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Sir G. Grindle.
12/8
Six G Daging.
Sir S. Wilson.
13.8
72751A/30 H.K.
Quarto for Mr.Robinson's signature
22 August, 1930.
371
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Dr. Drummond Shiels 19.8
KoXIX XANAX
Lord Passfield
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2218
Dear Norton,
Sir S.Wilson, who is at the moment
DRAFT.
for conson.
C.J.Norton, Esq.
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Copy extract pages 1 to 5 Sir W.Feel's letter (18)
2 drafts
on leave, thought that Sir R. Vansittart
might be interested to read the enclosed
extract from a letter which he bad
received from the Governor of Hong kong
about the proposed Customs Agreement with
the Chinese. I am not sending cories
of Sir W.Peel's correspondence with
Sir M.Lampson as it appears that cories
have already been sent to the Foreign
Office from Peking.
;
The Colonial Office have considerable
sympathy with the Governor in his effort
to negotiate an agreement with the Chines
Customs. Since Sir Miles Lampson arrears
generally to share his view that this
question should be treated as a Customs
matter, for the purpose of preventing
smuggling, and should be hammered out by
experts rather than that the Chinese
should be permitted to make it the occa-
sion for a purely political attempt
designed