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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.
SECRET.
FINAL MINUTES OF A MEETING HELD AT 3.30 P.M. ON JULY 29TH, 1936, IN THE BOARD OF EDUCATION CONFERENCE ROOM TO DISCUSS QUESTIONS ARISING OUT OF THE MISSION OF SIR FREDERICK LEITH-ROSS TO CHINA.
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Present:
Sir Frederick Leith-Ross
(in the Chair)
Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen
Chief Economic Adviser to
H.M. Government.
- H.M. Ambassador-designate
to China.
Mr.
V.B. Brown
Mr. L. Browett J.J. Wills
Mr.
Mr. A.R. Fraser
Mr. C.V. Jardine
Sir Edward Crowe
Mr. C.7. Orde
Mr.
F.T.A. Ashton-Gwatkin
Sir John Fratt
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Board of Trade.
Department of Overseas
Trade.
Foreign Office.
A.
Mr. S.D. aley
Mr. N.3. Young
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M
H.M. Treasury.
Mr. F.H. Nixon
Mr. 3.V. Jones
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Export Credits Guarantee
Department.
Mr. R. V.
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Colonial Office.
Bank of England.
Vernon
Mr. G. E.J. Gent
Mr. R. N. Kershaw Mr. D.L. Hogg
Position of Hong
Kong.
SIR FREDERICK LEITH-ROSS said that the object of the
meeting was to take a preliminary survey of the questions
shown on the paper circulated before the meeting, (annexed)
in order that he might be in a position to frame definite
recommendations to the Cabinet regarding British trade
with China. He would like to receive the considered views
of the Departments concerned by 1st September.
At the
request of Mr. Vernon, he would begin by discussing the
position of Hong Kong, as the question he wished to raise
under this head was independent of the other matters to
be discussed.
Although Hong Kong was economically part of Chine, she
had the Chinese tariff against her and was, therefore,
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