COPY FOR REGISTRATION
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RECEIVED
CYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
1 € AUG 1938
O. O. REGY
Dated 15th August, 1938.
No.231.
Received 6.30 a.m.,
15th August.
Addressed to Becretary of State for the Colonies telegram No.231 15th August repeated to Shanghai telegram No.124 Canton saving telegram ko. 22.
Kuangtung Provincial Government have requested permission to establish at Kowloon railway terminus office for collection of transit tax imposed on goods passing through the Province.
While desirous not to stand in the
way of the Chinese Government in obtaining revenue there appear to be two objections to the suggestion firstly that such action might be inconsistent with neutrality secondly that undesirable precedent would be established. regards the latter point collection of Chinese Customs here
on the other hand action is not altogether parallel:
As
taken in emergency need not be accepted subsequently as
precedent.
I should be grateful for guidance by telegram.