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should be put on a fooling of equality as reganda numbers.
ons
From this it would appear that
Ja anese have no in-
tention of allowing unrestri ted freedom of navigation at
any ti
is regarde hampon, ir. Okazaki maid that the
Custom would not be pe witted to funotion there an it
Ite was used ɔy military trang orta and musply ships.
admitted that aurrerainl cargo was brought in by these
trane or tɛ and said that any such rgo would be placed
under Customs control. hippers would be required to send
to the Custom lists of all such oergo; the, would not be
pe maitted to more it overland but would be ra de to bring
it into Canton harbour by lighter and aas the Custoɑg
it is to be feared that such a myste wuld present many
o portunities for evasion and eggling
3.
As ex lained in my telegram No. 51 of April 15th
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to His xoell nay the Governor of Mongkong, it appears to
me that, since the original arrangements for the navigation
of the yearl (iver were nade bilaterally or in consultation
with the Rongkong Governmatj a similar course should be
ado-ted in any modification of these arran maente and that
it is not open to the Japanese to amend them unilaterally.
I have therefore dused to th Javanese Consul-General
an interim reply (copy of which is enclosed) on these lines,
postponing further discussion until I am in receipt of the
views of the Hongkong Govermente
Vemo andum and
Appendix bristle with points requiring amend wat or elucid-
ation: I enclose a summry of the criticism offered by
the
here.
sentatives of the three British shipping firm
Paragraph 4 of the Memorandum, requiring British
voupels to comply with all regulations issued by the
hinese
authorities, is particularly objectionable, and could not
be accepted in is present vague form,