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Sir M. Lampson enquired whether, apart from Articles
5 and 10, the rest of the amendments, or at any rate part of
them, might not be acceptable to the Chinese Government.
It
was all a question of finding a quid ore que for the
Government of Hong Long, who were permitting an administra-
tion of a foreign Government to function in their territory
and saturally wanted something in return for that.
Mr Maze did not seem very hopeful, but finally agreed
that there might be minor points on which the agreed draft
might be acceptable, and he undertook to provide H, X.
Minister with his considered comments before Jir X.Lampson
departure from hanghai on Thursday evening.
en
H.M.Minister then brought the conversation round to
the possibilities of the alternative scheme of some arrang®-
ment under which the Government of Hong
aa
omg would do the
preventive werk for the Chinese Customs, referring to his,
Sir M. Lampson's, conversation with Mr T.V.Doong on the
subject, Mr Maze said that, as originally suggested, this
was impracticable, as he had explained to Ir oong.
explained that what the Chinese Customs wanted was to work
within the ring of eng Long waters, because once the junks,
ete., had got the open sea, no amount of preventive work
would be effective.
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Hong Jong being a free port had not got,
and could not at short notice train, the staff necessary to
de the preventive work. ïventually, however, Er. Maxe, who
soomed at first definitely opposed to this alternative
solution,
ase round to admitting th
there might be some
thing in the idea of exploring sesse plan by which the Hong
ong Government would do the preventive work with the
me of the Chinese
stems, and that same form of com
operation an, say, a fifty-fifty basis might possibly be
worked /
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