CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9] — Page 78

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Jonclosure 3.

British Legation,

Peking.

September 9th. 1918.

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of Your Excellency's despatch No. 559/1910 of the 9th. ultimo

on the subject of the Anglo-Chinese Customs Agreement and to

express my regret that I am unable to give any assurance that

this Agreement will come into operation on 1st. January next.

When I received the Chinese text of the

Agreement forwarded in your despatch of 27th. April last and

compared it with the text obtained by me from the Wai Chiao Pu

I discovered a number of important differences between the

two.

Just as your Government had no Chinese text so, it

appears, the Chinese Government had no English text, and on

making private enquiries of the Inspector-General of Customs

I made the further discovery that in October last he had been

instructed by the Chinese Government to endeavour to secure

through this Legation a number of alterations in the text as

negotiated at Hongkong. These instructions he had decided to

ignore on the ground that some of the alterations were not

acceptable to himself and that all of them were certain to

meet with rejection at the hands of the British Government.

Sir Francis Aglen had had no knowledge of

the correspondence between this Legation and the Wai Chiao Pu

on the subject of the addition of the postal clause and the

early conclusion of the Agreement, but he at once recognised

the differences in the Chinese Government's text as corres-

-ponding to the alterations which he had been asked to secure.

Thus

is Excellency

Sir Henry May, K.C.H.G.,

Governor

etc.,

etc.. Hongkong.

etc..