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Note.
sir,
To accompany No. 276 of
of 16th
4 June, 1919.
April 11th. 1919.
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From Wai Chiao Pu to His Majesty's Minister.
I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of Your Excellency's note of March 11th. 1918, on the subject of the Anglo-Chinese Customs Agreement of Hongkong.
In it Your Excellency states that you are
in receipt of instructions from His Majesty's Government expressing their agreement to the insertion into Article 5 of the additional section relating to Postal matter desired by the Chinese Government and authorising you to sign the Agreement on His Majesty's Government's behalf. You also ask me to communicate to you at an early date the name of the representa- -tive designated to sign the Agreement on behalf of the Chinese
Government.
I have also the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's further note of September 16th, last. This latter note states that in April a copy of the Chinese text of the Agreement was handed to your Legation
by this Ministry, but that this text proves to differ materially from the text negotiated in Hongkong and contains a number of additional sentences which are not to be found in the text
received by you from His Excellency the Governor, From
inquiries you have made, you continue, it is evident that
these alterations must have beenmade at Peking. They have not, you point out, been discussed with the Governor of Hongkong and are not acceptable to His Excellency.
You enclose two copies of the entire text
of the Agreement with a Chinese version of the text appended thereto, and request me to make the necessary arrangements to complete the Agreement at an early date.
In reply to the above I have the honour to
state that the Agreement having been altered by the various
authorities
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