Instructions were sent on the 30th November
to Sir Horace Seymour to reply to the counter-
proposals of the Chinese Government and I cnclose
heroin a copy of the revised draft toxt of our own
treaty, together with a draft supplementary note
based on these instructions.
It will be soon that the amendments which Sir
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Horace Seymour has been authorised to offer follow
closely those offered by the United States Government
except in the following two matters:-
(1) National treatment for the carrying on of
commerce
I must confirm the views which I have expressed
in previous communic..tions on this subject which are those
of His Majesty's Government.
(2) Overseas merchant shipping (See point 7 in
the message from the Department of State
dated 29th November).
We had assumed that the message of the 25th
November (see point 1 (6)) superseded the observations
on this subject in the message of the previous day
(see 1: first paragraph).
Procceding on this
assumption, we have omitted from our exchange of notes
any/