In any further communication
this subject, please quote
No. F 5868/37/10.
and address-
not to any person by name,
but to-
--
The Under-Secretary of State."
Foreign Office,
IMMEDIATE
London, S.W.1.
RECEIVED 280CT 1930
[OOL, OFFICE
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FOREIGN OFFICE.
101
S.W.1.
27th October, 1930.
Sir,
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(1)
With reference to Foreign Office letter F 5412/37/10
of the 6th October, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Henderson to inform you that Mr. Stephenson, Head of the Chinese Customs Office in London, acting under instructions from Mr. Maze, Inspector-General of Chinese Maritime Customs, communicated to this department on the 20th October a printed copy of the final draft of the Hongkong-China Trade and Customs Agreement
Another copy has, it is dated Shanghai 26th September 1930.
understood, been similarly communicated informally to the
Colonial Office. The printed draft differs only very slightly
from the draft communicated by Sir W. Peel to His Majesty's
Minister at Peking on the 15th September last, copy of which
was transmitted to the Colonial Office and the Board of Trade in
(2)
Foreign Office letter F 5804/37/10 of the 22nd October.
seems therefore to be good grounds for believing that the
There
(printed draft represents the agreement finally reached between
the two parties and that as soon as the necessary formal alterations as suggested in paragraph 4 of Foreign Office letter under reference have been made the final text will be ready for signature. The draft has been examined in this department from that point of view and the formal alterations which appear to be necessary are embodied in the enclosed
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
memorandum.