CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912 — Page 199

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PARIS,

November 2nd,

1912.

C.O.

197

sir:-

35675

Rece (REGE 11 NOV 12

I have the honour to inform you that in accordance

with the instructions contained in your despatch

Mo. 182 Commercial (29430/12) of the 23rd July last I

addressed a Note to the "inister for Foreign Affairs

stating that is Majesty's Government were anxious to

obtain from the French Government an arrangement for

Hong Kong under which all goods transhipped in that

Colony should not be subject to any higher duty on ar-

rival in France than that to which they would be sub-

Ject if shipped direct and in one bottom from their

country of origin.

I enclose for your information a copy of the `ote

in question and of the reply which I have received from

insieur Poincaré on the subject.

Monsieur Poincaré states that the Minister of Com-

merce to whom the question was submitted is desirous of

obtaining a reply to the proposals put forward by the

French

The Pight Honourable

Sir Edward Grey,

Bart.,

&c.

C.