CO129-510-7 Allegations of discrimination against United States companies in Hong Kong 22-3-1928 - 8-1-1929 — Page 38

R.T. 1308/28.

COPY.

E-DANDO (CUT TUTMANINE

NEAT GEDIGE STREET

38

26th November, 1928.

Dear Craigie

In your note A 7139/1752/45 of 20th November you

refer to the last letter in the correspondence about

discrimination against American interests in Hong Kong

as being that wìdch we sent to the Colonial office on

5th September (C.R.T. 1308/28). I enclose copy of a

reply to that lettor from the Colonial office and of our

rejoinder.

As you will see it is not suggested by the Board of

Trade that we should be intractable as regards the

question of motor bus licences, our view being that the

restriction is thoroughly bad in rinciple and one which

we could not impose in this country without infringing

our existing obligations under commercial treaties and

those which we shall incur when the Convention on Import

and Export Prohibitions comes into operation. The classes

of goods which we may prohibit are limited by the Gorman

treaty and other countries, including United States of

R.L. Craigie, Esq.