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My Lord,
In Your Lordship's despatch No.203 of april 16th 1920 my observations were requested on a letter addressed by the blonial office to His Majesty'a Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs with reference to the pro- posed Customs Agree ment between Hongkong and China. The latter intimated that His kajesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies was in agrement with Mir H. Stubbs' view that the agreement should not now be signed.
I have deferred replying to the above despatch panding the result of further correspondance with the Hongkong Goverment, but as the purport of subsequent communications reenived from Sir R. Stubby bas merely
been to emphasise the determination of that Covernment
to withdraw from the negotiations I now consider it
advisable to bring to Your Lordship's notice a brief review of the whole case in so far as it has been dealt
with by this Legation.
The enclosed précis of correspondence on the subject shows the course of the negotiations conducted in Peking, and a perusal of this sumary at once makes it apparent that the idea of a Customs Convention originated in Hongkong, that the intervention of this Legation me requested by the fovernor only after the terms of the draft agrement had been fully discussed and approved by the Hongkong Goverment, and that every step taken in Paking ms in accordance with the expressed
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