Any further communication should be
addressed to:-
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THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY,
at the address given opposite.
The following letter and number should
be quoted:-
C.R.T.
4356/30.
Telegraphic Address :
COLASTA, PARL, LONDON.
Telephone No.: 3840 Victoria.
Sir,
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COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AND TREATIES
DEPARTMENT,
BOARD OF TRADE,
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
LONDON, S.W.1.
29th November, 1930.
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I am directed by the Board of Trade to transmit to
you copy of a letter and enclosures from the colonial office
regarding the import into liong Kong of spirit manufactured
in France labelled as scotch Whisky. A specimen label
is enclosed in original, for eventual return to the
Colonial office.
Mr. Secretary Henderson will be aware that France
is a party to the International Convention for the
Frotection of Industrial property of 1911, article lu
of which provides that "every production which may
falsely bear as indication of origin the name of a
specified locality, when such indication shall be joined
to a trade name of a fictitious character, or used with
intent to defraud", shall be seized, in accordance with
the stipulations of article 9 of the Convention. Such
seizure is to be effected equally in the country where
the mark is applied as in that with which the production
The Under-secretary of State,
Foreign Office,