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What the Chamber, the Association

and this Government desire is that British marks registered

in England and Hongkong respectively and used in China

should be protected from piracy by Japanese in China,pend-

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ing the possibility of concluding a Trade Marka Convention

with China herself. On this question the Convention as

drafted has no bearing and it would be almost valueless to

the British Merchant in Hongkong.

In this connection I venture to

draw Your Lordship's attention to my confidential despatch

of the 10th August, 1908 addressed to His Majesty's

Ambassador at Tokyo, a copy of which I forwarded to Your

Lordship in my confidential despatch of the 15th idem, and

to repeat that what is really required in the first instance

is not a Convention between the United Kingdom and Japan,

but the amendment of the Japanese law with regard to trade

marks as suggested by Sir Pelham Warren and Mr. Lowther,

whose opinion in that respect has the cordial support of

the local branch of the China Association. If such amend-

ments in the Japanese law were made, and the negotiations

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