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settlement in the Chinese sense of the
question of extra-territoriality, which
His Majesty's Government desired to
defer for subsequent and separate
negotiations.
The idea of a separate agreement
in regard to Hong Kong had not, however,
been forgotten, and in the summer of
1929 the Inspector-General of Customs
was authorized to visit Hong Kong to
discuss the possibility of a customs
agreement. The Hong Kong Government
concurred on condition of an assurance
on two preliminary points, namely,
(1) that the Commissioner of the
Chinese Maritime Customs in
Hong Kong would continue to
be British and to be a person
acceptable to the Hong Kong
Government; and
(2) that the rights of navigation
between Hong Kong and Chinese
inland and coastal waters now
enjoyed by British shipping
should be maintained.
It
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