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expressed the hope that it would now be possible to get
the matter started again on these more promising lines
and that he would do all in his power to oil the wheels
of discussion between kesars. Lloyd and üsborne (see my
letter to sir V. wellesley of June 30th last).
4.
Towards the end of July, I received from her.
liaze a copy of a despatch in chinese received by him
from the Department of Customs affairs of the National
Government, on the subject of the proposed agreement and
of the necessity of taking preventive measures to pro-
tect the Chinese Customs revenues against the alleged
smuggling from Hongkong in the event of failure to come
to an agreement. In sending this document to the Gover-
nor, I said that while I by no means countenanced this
method of negotiation by indirect pressure, it seemed
more than ever desirable that some arrangement should
be come to as soon as possible (see my despatch Humber
1047 of July 27th last). At the same time, I told kr.
ize that I feared that such methods were hardly condu-
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