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cases of smuggling by the Chinese crews of British ships.
I hope I shall not have to take the question up
orricially, for, sa we know, its moote are so deeply en-
bedded in the distant neat that one cannot tell where such
a controversy, once started, will end.
vill now have to be reported hore. In the meantime my I
beg you to moderate the seal of your Commissioners in the
hope that further cause for commleint on the nert of our
mart
shipping people may not arise *
The whole story
There is one more point I should like to make, and
that is that I cannot admit that there is any justifiestiən whatever for the contention sut forward by the omissioner
of Customa et Amoy that the Tariff Autonomy Treaty of 1928
gives the Cuatoma a free hand to inflict fines; in feet this
point is quite irrelevant.
Yours sincerely,
(STONED) WIL V. LAMPSON.