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any further communication

on is subject, please quote

No. F 7022/117/10

and address—

not to any person by name,

but to-

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Under-Secretary of State."

Foreign Office,

London, S. W. 1.

Sir,

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FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

25th January, 1929.

52727/28

Copy Gov

I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to refer to your letter No.52727/28 of the 21st December last on the subject of the proposed amendment to the Hongkong Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1899 and to transmit the enclosed copy of a despatch to Peking asking for

the observations of His Majesty's Minister and the Acting British Consul General at Canton on the draft

bill enclosed in your letter under reference.

2. A copy of this correspondence is being sent to the

Admiralty and the Board of Trade.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

F.Aswim. Coonorin

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.