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Enclosure Io.1 in Peking despatch Bo.1488 to r.o. of 11/10/29.
Shanghai office of the
Inspectorate General of Customs.
21 Mart Read.
23rd September, 1929.
Dear Sir Miles,
In continuation of my letters of the
8th July and 27th ultimo, on the subject of the proposed
Anglo-Chinese Customs' Agreement, I now encalone, for your
private and gonfidential information, a copy of a letter
which I am addressing to Mir Cecil Clementi on the subject,
It is self-axplanatory and I need not recapitulate here
what is written therein, but I may incidentally add that
the Chinese attitude in regard to Article v. (Inland \ntera)
is, in my opinion, eminently logi062) and if Chinese-flag stoszmrs are especially authorised to ply between Hongkong
and "Inland" plases under Inland Waters Regulations, it must be admitted that this water in itself is an unprecedented
conaesmien te Hongkong. As is well know, of course, the foreign shipping firms now partisipating in the Chinese Coastal-trade speak freely of ultimately transferring their vessels to the Chinese flag in the event of Coastal-trade privileges being withdraw. And Hong Long shipping firmIS (or Agencies) would probably adopt a similar policy in
to order to be able to engage in local "Inland“ trade/and
from the Colony. It is also well know that thing's Revenue is seriously affected in Louth China and elsewhere by the application of the new Tariff, and there is a general expression of Chinese public opinion that the free-port of
uch a Yongkong should help her to stop the leakage, friendly gesture on Kongkong's part would undoubtedly havO most beneficial and far-reaching effects upon the relations of hongkong and Canton, and would, for this reason, greatly
It advantage the Colony's trade and shipping interests. is true, of course, that under the revised plan China's
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