CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930 — Page 59

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It should be con-

produce may be conditionally opened up.

sidered, however, that whatever measures may be devoted by us to deal with smuggling in the Formosa Strait will necessarily be influenced by the outcome of the Hongkong Customs Agreement issue, which still hangs fire, and which has been unnecessarily confused and aggravated by 0.1. Green's recent inflammatory and misleading articles in the "North China".

Yours sincerely,

(Signed) F. E. KAZE.