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request of the Chinese Govemment in the agreed draft
of 1918 (see above), was deleted. The whole of
Article 2, dealing with aalt, was deleted, and salt
was merely added to arme and ammunition, the illicit
entry of which into China Hongkong promised to
endeavour to prevent under Article 11.
The only
reason given was that article 2 contained too much
detail, but the real reason is, as explained above,
that the Hongkong authorities have since 1918 always
disliked the idea of having to take these drastic
measures in regard to salt, probably owing to the
strong opposition it would create amongst Chinese
in the Colony. The former article 10, regarding
places of entry for livestock, was accordingly
transferred to the place of Article 2 and an entirely
new article 10 inserted, for the purpose of assisting
Hongkong manufacturers, giving them privileged treat-
ment on the same footing as Chinese manufactures in
China. The other main alteration was the substitu-
tion of a new article 2, dealing with goods transiting
Hongkong from treaty port to treaty port. The chief
feature of this amendment was the elimination of the
provision for storage in bonded warehouses of goods
landed pending transmission. As regards foreign
(1... non-Chinese) goods under exemption certificate,
the time-limit within which the goods were entitled
to enter port of destination free of duty, was
altered from "reach their treaty port destination
"within one year from the date of issue of such
"exemption certificate" to "re-exported to the same
"or mother treaty port within one year of their
/"arrival
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