CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929 — Page 51

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Peking No. 37.

Canton No. 122.

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG. 1st August 1929.

Ausd. tel. 25 Oct. 28

My Lord,

On the 17th July, Mr. F.W. Haze, Inspector General of Chinese Maritime Customs, accompanied by

Ir. C.F. Johnston, Commissioner of Chinese Customs for

Kowloon and district, called on me at Mountain Lodge.

Ir. Haze first presented to me in the original Chinese

and in an English translation an order from Ir. T.V.

Soong, the Finance Minister of the Nationalist

Government of the Republic of China, directing him to go in person to Hong Kong, to consult with me and to invite my co-operation in a plan for preventing

smuggling from this Colony into China. I attach a

Enclosure No.1 Copy of the translation of this order, the original

Enclosures No.2. *.3.

of which I returned to Mr. Maze.

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Mr. Haze then handed me two memoranda, of which I attach copies. The first is a rough outline of a plan for co-operation between the Hong Kong Government and the Chinese Maritime Customs for safeguarding China's customs revenue and for securing reciprocal benefits of trade and commerce. The second

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD PASSFIELD,

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