RIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
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DIEU
ET MON
DROIT
Government House,
37 ong ong.
2nd July, 1930.
18 378
My dear Sie Sammel.
I am sending you copies of letters which have
passed between Lampson and myself, mainly in regard to
the Customs Agreement. He has sent copies privately
and confidentially to Wellesley to show that we are
co-operating on what we feel are the right lines.
It
is desirable, therefore, that you also should have copies. Since my telegram of the 17 May, the foll-
owing developments have taken place.
Some days after
my conference with the heads of certain firms, etc.,
Shaw, local Manager of Butterfield & Swire, no doubt
on direct instructions from his principals in London,
perpetrated a volte face and wrote in stating that he
thought that the Agreement should be signed with the
omission of Article 5, and probably also Article 10.
He endeavoured to get the other merchants present at
the conference to take the same line, but they declined
to do so. It seems to me that Butterfield's are only
out to preserve their own individual business, and are
No comments yet.
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