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13 AUG 09

Under Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

S. W.

I em directed by the Board of Trade

to advert to your letter of 2nd March last (No.7440) on the subject of the proposed Convention with Japan for the mutual

protection of British and Japanese trade

marks in China and Corea, and in reply I

am to state that they concur in Sir E.

Grey's proposal to agree to the suggested

postponement of negotiations in this

connection so far as regards Corea.

The Board have carefully considered

the provisions of the Draft Convention

submitted by the Japanese Government to

the Government of France and suggested by

the former as a basis for negotiations with

His Majesty's Government, and they now

desire me to offer the following observa-

tions on the different Articles comprised

therein.

Article I. Subject to the omission

of the words "and Cores", Article I of the

British Counter Draft submitted to the

Japanese Government in August last seems

to cover all that is contained in Arts.

I and III of the Draft Franco-Japanese

Convention.

It is equally explicit, and as a form

of words appears, to the Board to be an improvement upon those Articles.

Moreover it includes the useful pro-

vision that protection is to be accorded

to