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FOREIGN OFFICES 21 OCT 05

October 20, 1905.

I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to

acknowledge the receipt of your letter 35987/05 of

the 16th instant respecting a conversation between

the Governor of HongKong and the United States Sec-

for War on the question of the duties on

sugar imported into the Philippine Islands.

retary

I am to point out that the statement made in

the note handed by His Excellency to Mr. Secretary

Taft, to the effect that Parties to the Brussels Su-

gar Convention are bound to penalise or prohibit

suger from countries having an excessive surtax is

contrary to the view held by His Majesty's Govern-

ment, and expressed in a despatch to His Majesty's

Chargé d'Affaires at Brussels of the 18th of March

last, to the effect that Contracting States are only

required by the Convention to apply countervailing

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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