CO129-521-12 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 2-4-1930 - 16-6-1930 — Page 118

DRAFT TELEGRA

To H. Minister Peking.

Downing Street.

April, 1930.

117

Your telegram 154 of 27th March Hong Kong

Customs Agreement

I agree to your

discussing with Maze as you propose instead

of communication being sent to him by

To F. C. for concumeNCE

~~/x/30

Governor of Hong Kong.

For Governor of Hong Kong view about pre-

valence of smuggling see his telegram to

Colonial Office of 14th April.

Important

question appears to me and to Colonial

Office to be whether Chinese Maritime

Customs consider smuggling to be on a suf-

ficient scale to warrant organisation of

measures against Hong Kong traffic in order

to protect revenue. If they do it would

seem from earlier experience of Customs

"blockade" of Hong Kong that Colonial Govern-

ment would find it worth while to come to

an