CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 134

Copy.

No. 323.

Comercial.

444458)

Sir: -

PARIS,

C

£33 36909

E NOV 11

November 9th, 1911.

With reference to your Despatch No. 180 Com-

mercial (31848/10) of the 6th September 1910 and to

subsequent correspondence with regard to the possib-

ility of securing for Canadian goods transhipped at

Hongkong the benefit of the minimum French Tariff, I

have the honour to transmit to you herewith a copy

of a Note which I have received from the French

Minister for Foreign Affairs in reply to the repres-

entations which I addressed to his predecessor on the

subject, in accordance with the instructions contain-

ed in your above-mentioned Despatch.

Monsieur de Selves does not reply to the request

that the Government of the Republic should accord the

minimum tariff to all articles imported into France

from Hongkong or the Straits Settlements, but His

Excellency states that the French Government are

prepared

The Right Honble.

Sir Edward Grey., Bart.,M.P.

&C,

&C.,

&c.