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had no objection to the omission of Article 4 which was

retained with the idea that the Japanese Goverment

might attach importance to it.

Your Excellency should therefore submit to the

Japanese Government the Revised Counter-Draft as pro-

posed by the Board of Trede, citting Article 4.

With reference to the request contained in the

penultimate paragraph of Your Excellency's above-

mentioned despatch that you might be supplied with

sither a full account or a précis of that part of the

proceedings at the International Industrial Property

Conference relating to unregistered carks, I transmit

to you herewith a Blue Book containing the Report of

the Delegatur at the Conference which, in the absence

of detailed reports of the proceedings of the

Comittees, is the only document to which I can use.

fully refer you.

As regards the question of the inclusion of copy-

right in the proposed Convention, to which you refer

in the last paragraph of your above-mentioned despatch,

the Board of Trade are of opinion that it would be

preferable

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