CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912 — Page 238

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With reference to your despatch No.7 of Jarmary

2nd. last relative to the proposed Anglo-Japanese Con-

vention for the Protection of Trafe Karka in Chine, I

tranæmit to you herewith copies of correspondence with

the Board of Trade and Colonial Office on the subject.

As Your Excellency will observe, the "olonial

Office concur in the propomal to submit to the Jeponere

Government the revised counter-draft, drown up by the

Board of Trade, (copy of which was enclosed in my

despatch No.245 of Decmber 9th. last), provided that,

in accordance with the wishes of the Governor of Hong

Kong, Article 4 is not included, unless the Japanese

Coverment. praes for its inclusion.

With regard to

this point, the Board of Trade, in the antepenultimate

paragraph of their letter of December 6th. last trans-

mitting the Revised Counter-Draft, atsted that they

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