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to Hongkong manufactures in addition to
other minor amendments favourable to the
Hongkong point of view. It is this
draft that Hongkong now (March 1930)
wishes again to send informally to Kr.
Maze, to discover what the reaction of
the National Government to the new amend-
ments is likely to be.
3. That is the present position. Through-
out all these intermittent negotiations,
the attitude of the Hongkong Government
has invariably been that it is the Chinese
who are bent on concluding the agreement,
while the colony is comparatively indif-
ferent to the main (1.e. the Customs)
issue. It is therefore up to Hongkong
to secure the maximum advantages in return.
The matter is in fact one for driving the
best possible bargain. If the bargain
is not good enough, the Colony will drop
the question one more, It was definitely
allowed by the F.0. in 1910 that the
agreement, being of a highly technical
nature, could best be negotiated on the
spot by representatives of the Hongkong
Government and the Customs, though it
was actually to be signed by His Majesty's
Minister with the Government of China.
The files of this Legation are therefore
very scanty and scattered on the subject.
In particular, we have no knowledge as
to
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