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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
C.O.
42072 November 28.]
Mr. Whitehead to the Marquess of Lansdowne,-(Received November 28.)
(No. 269.) My Lord,
Berlin, November 26, 1904.
I HAD the honour to receive your Lordship's telegrams Nos. 59 and 60 of the 21st November and No. 61 of the 22nd November relative to the new Chinese Trade-marks Regulations on the 22nd instant, and took an opportunity of the weekly diplomatic reception on that day to mention their contents to Baron von Richthofen.
His Excellency expressed surprise that the German Minister in Peking should be still without instructions on the subject, as he thought they had already been sent, and he promised to let me know on the following day how the matter stood. Baron von Richthofen added that the postponement of the new Regulations was being strongly urged upon the Imperial Foreign Office by the German manufacturers.
Later in the evening I received your Lordship's telegram No. 62, and on the following morning addressed to Baron von Richthofen the note, copy of which I have the honour to inclose.
I have now received a verbal message from his Excellency, the substance of which I had the honour to report to your Lordship in my telegram No. 29 of this day's date, to the effect that the German Government have learnt from Paris that the delay in the issue of instructions to the French Minister in Peking was due to M. Delcassé's indisposition, as the draft was ready and only awaited his formal approval. Baron von Richthofen has therefore requested the German Ambassador in Paris to ask the French Government to hasten the dispatch of these instructions, and has directed the German Minister in Peking to join with Sir Ernest Satow and the French Minister in simultaneous representations, urging the postponement of the Regulations as soon as the latter receives his instructions.
I understand that the German Government has taken no action at Tokio similar to that recorded in your Lordship's telegram No. 60.
I have, &c. (Signed) J. B. WHITEHEAD.
Inclosure in No. 1.
Mr. Whitehead to Baron Richthofen.
Your Excellency,
Berlin, November 23, 1904.
SINCE the conversation which I had the honour to have with your Excellency yesterday on the subject of the Chinese Trade-marks Regulations, I have received a telegram from the Marquess of Lansdowne, instructing me to inform your Excellency that His Majesty's Government consider unacceptable the Chinese proposals referred to in the Memorandum handed to your Excellency by Sir Frank Lascelles on the 8th instant, and that they have therefore instructed His Majesty's Minister at Peking to press for the postponement of the date when these new Regulations are to become operative. His Majesty's Minister at Tôkio has also been directed by Lord Lansdowne to represent this matter to the Japanese Government, and to express the hope that the Japanese Minister at Peking will be instructed to withdraw his opposition to this postponement.
I avail, &c. (Signed) J. B. WHITEHEAD.
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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
C.O.
42072 Noyember 28.]
Mr. Whitehead to the Marquess of Lansdowne,-(Received November 28.)
(No. 269.) My Lord,
Berlin, November 26, 1904. I HAD the honour to receive your Lordship's telegrams Nos. 59 and 60 of the 21st November and No. 61 of the 22nd November relative to the new Chinese Trade- marks Regulations on the 22nd instant, and took an oppertunity of the weekly diplomatic reception on that day to mention their contents to Baron von Richthofen.
His Excellency expressed surprise that the German Minister in Peking should be still without instructions on the subject, as he thought they had already been sent, and he promised to let me know on the following day how the matter stood. Baron von Richthofen added that the postponement of the new Regulations was being strongly urged upon the Imperial Foreign Office by the German manufacturers.
Later in the evening I received your Lordship's telegram No. 62, and on the following morning addressed to Baron von Richthofen the note, copy of which I have the honour to inclose.
I have now received a verbal message from his Excellency, the substance of which I had the honour to report to your Lordship in my telegram No. 29 of this day's date, to the effect that the German Government have learnt from Paris that the delay in the issue of instructions to the French Minister in Peking was due to M. Delcasse's indisposition, as the draft was ready and only awaited his formal approval. Baron von Richthofen has therefore requested the German Ambassador in Paris to ask the French Government to hasten the dispatch of these instructions, and has directed the German Minister in Peking to join with Sir Ernest Satow and the French Minister in simultaneous represen- tations, urging the postponement of the Regulations as soon as the latter receives his instructions.
I understand that the German Govement has taken no action at Tokio similar to that recorded in your Lordship's telegram No. 60.
I have, &c. (Signed) J. B. WHITEHEAD.
Inclosure in No. 1.
Mr. Whitehead to Baron Richthofen.
Your Excellency,
Berlin, November 23, 1904. SINCE the conversation which I had the honour to have with your Excellency yesterday on the subject of the Chinese Trade-marks Regulations, I have received a telegram from the Marquess of Lansdowne, instructing me to inform your Excellency that His Majesty's Government consider unacceptable the Chinese proposals referred to in the Meniorandum handed to your Excellency by Sir Frank Lascelles on the 8th instant, and that they have therefore instructed His Majesty's Minister at Peking to press for the postponement of the date when these new Regulations are to become operative. His Majesty's Minister at Tôkio has also been directed by Lord Lansdowne to represent this matter to the Japanese Government, and to express the hope that the Japanese Minister at Peking will be instructed to withdraw his opposition to this postponement.
I avail, &c. (Signed) J. B. WHITEHEAD.
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