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FIDENTIAL.

REGE 19 SEP 10,

Hongkong.

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My Lord,

Government House,

Hongkong, 26th. August, 1910.

I have the honour to acknowledge

the receipt of Your Lordship's telegram of the 20th.

instant informing me with reference to your Confidential

Despatch of the 15th. ultimo that negotiations on the

subject of the proposed Customs Agreement with China may

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now be commenced.

2.

I note from Sir F. A. Campbell's

letter No. 21803/10 of the 29th. of last June that His

Majesty's Government desire that the Agreement should be

signed by His Majesty's Minister at Peking, and a re-

-presentative of the Chinese Government duly appointed for

the purpose. I infer that this does not mean that the

Agreement shall be negotiated in Peking, but only that it

shall be ratified there.

The matter is extremely complex

and it is essential that the negotiations should be

RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF CREVE, &C. 1

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conducted