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Any further communication should be addressed to:-

THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL.

at the address given opposite.

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Telegraphic Address

COLASTA, LONDON,

Telephone No.-1362 Victoria.

Sir,

BOARD OF TRADE,

27105

352

RECO Reep 13 AUG 09

(COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT),

GWYDYR HOUSE,

WHITEHALL,

LONDON, S.W.

12th August, 1909

IMMEDIATE.

I am directed by the Board of Trade to inform you that they have received from the Foreign Office a copy of your letter to that Department of 20th May last (No. 11451), transmitting copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, in which he asked that the Register of Trade Marks of the Colony may be given a status separate from and similar to that of the English Register in any Convention that may be concluded with China, Japan or

Corea.

In this connection I am to forward to you the accom- panying copy of a draft Convention between Japan and France for the reciprocal protection in China by each party of the trade marks, Hong marks &c., of subjects of the other which has been submitted to H. M. Government

by the Government of Japan as a basis for the negotiation of a similar Convention between that country and the United Kingdom, together with a draft of the communication! which the Board propose to make to the Foreign Office on the subject, and to ask you to be good enough to direct Lord Crewe's attention to Article VI of the draft Conven-

tion and the observations which the Board propose to make

to the Foreign Office thereupon.

Two questions, however, arise with reference to this Article and the amendments which the Board suggest should

be made in it. The intention of the latter, as will be seen, is to give effect, as far as possible, to the wishes expressed by the responsible authorities of Hong Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office'

W.

Kong

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