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Kotewall, and local heads of Jardine Matheson and Company, Butterfield and Swire. P. and 0. and Dodwells. The proposals were agreed to unanimously. On Thursday I put them
before a full meeting of Executive Council and they also
unanimously agreed.
China would be asked to pay additional expenses incurred by the Colony in operating the scheme and to accept the condition that goods in transit through Hong Kong should preserve their status on lines of Article 9 of the latest draft agreement.
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I ask for your Lordship's approval to proceed on the se lines. Meanwhile I propose to inform Maze that he may prefer post ponement of his visit here pending consideration of alternative scheme.
Ende.
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