CO129-517-2 Correspondence on proposed Chinese and Hong Kong agreements over Customs 13-11-1929 - 28-12-1929 — Page 101

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5746/52/10).

To

CHINA

Code telegram to Sir M. Lampson, (Peking),

Foreign Office, 12th November 1929, 4.15 p.m.

No. 395. (R).

Hongkong Customs Agreement.

My inmediately succeeding telegram contains teat

of telegram addressed by British Chamber of Commerce,

Shanghai, to China Association, London, on November 7th,

Have you any information as to further negotiations

leading up to alleged proposal to extend privileged

Factory Duty treatment to Hongkong factories?