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draft Customs Agreement.
The above considerations however do not affect my
carnest desire to cooperate in every possible manner towards
the completion of a satisfactory agreement, especially in
order to provide for the future connection with the Canton-
Hankov Line, and to prevent the poda traffic from being
throttled by taxation in transit.
With this object I called this morning on His Excel-
lency Li Ching-fang, Vice-President of the Board of Cowrami »
cations, and invited a discussion of the points at iscus.
I found bord li entirely unprepared to go into the question.
The draft of the Agreement has only reached the Board from
Canton this morning, and no ono there wo familiar with the
later stages of the negotiations. I noticed, by the way,
that the printed copy received by the Board was different
alike from "A" and "B" in that it omitted altogether the
I supplied
Articles reserved for further consideration.
Lord li with a copy of these two Articles, and also
explained that I desired to come to an agreement at once on
Schedule D, so that the twelve words in Article 37, which
practically nullified the arrangements for Customs duties,
might
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