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process is certain to be viewed

aste

with great distrast in many quarters

and more especially by foreigners

resident in China and this should be

borne in mind when estimating the

validity of the criticismns of the

Treaty port communities to which

you refer.

Since the appointment

of Mr. Maze as Inspector-General

of Customs, the native bureaux

for the collection of surtaxes in

addition to the Customs duties, the

establishment of which a few years

ago was regarded as so serious a

menace to the future existence of the

Customs Administration, have been

abolished. A further valuable reform

was reported in your telegram

No. 8 of May the 1st to His Majesty's

Minister, Peking.

There appear s

therefore to be little justification

for

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