CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930 — Page 330

seen that t› Colonial Government has shown

its readiness to make an important concession

to the Nationalist Government in an effort to

reach an amicable agreement on this question,

and it now remains to be seen whether the

modified proposals now submitted by the Inspector

General of the Chinese Maritime Customs will be

acceptable to the authorities at Nanking in the form

of a revised draft Agreement. Lord Passfield

is telegraphing approval of the procedure proposed

by Sir W. Peel at the end of the telegram.

4. At the same time Lord Fassfield desires

me to say that he observes that in the Foreign

Office telegram of the gist of August to Sir M.

Lampson the occasion is used to introduce the

question of the British tenure of the New

Ferritories of Hong Kong. In the fifth paragraph

>f the telegram to Sir M. Lampson the Government

›f Hong Kong is credited with the view that if

the leased terriotory is surrendered the Colony

Tould be come untenable. It will be within Mr.

Henderson's

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