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Commissioner.
The important point of the despatch
is to emphasize the difficulties in which Hong Kong
may be placed in the event of the Chinese deciding
to
establish a preventive service with or without
the assistance of the Customs. This is a contingency
which we shall have to meet as it arises, but of
which it is very desirable that the Foreign Office
should receive warning in advance.
It will be seen from 12715/26 that in a
letter to the Foreign Office of the 30th June, 1926,
we drew attention to the possibility of the development
of smuggling being the natural concomitant of an
increase in the import duties. We might now refer to
that letter enclosing copies of 12 and 13, and asking
that the Governor's warning as to smuggling may be
brought to Sir Austen Chamberlain's notice, and say
that we should be glad to have any observations which
Sir Austen Chamberlain may wish to offer. We should
make it clear that it is on this point principally
that comment is desired, and that the recognition
question has already been adequately dealt with in
telegraphic correspondence (the question of
extradition is being dealt with separately, and we
need not I think refer to it).
Talhuisback
7/10
"conf Blue Book" as 107h5
(I cannot
trace the
the "conf
X
proposed appt. of
a Chine Consul for 1th. (is.)
pp $48. be reimulated as
The
MB3, 8
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no. 7 need be leach
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