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hether or not an extraneous quid pro me would be secured
by Hong Long us part of an agreement would depend on degree of importance attached to the uration by the Chinese authorities, but if it can be a cert ined that in event of failure to reach agreement a "blockade" will be established the Colonial Government would probable consider abandonment of attempt to obtain extranet us
coneession advisable.
The Board of Trade point out that the proposed agreement does not mount to a Uu tons union in the ordin ry sense of that tersand suggest that it might be desirable,
in the present political situation in China, in order to stress the special and limited of roter of the agreement, to consider whether the minimum period should b horter than the originally
pro osed term of ten years. Anda.
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