CO129-542-12 Smuggling from Hong Kong into China 21-1-1933 - 21-8-1933 — Page 121

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"it would widen the rift between themselves and

"Canton, which they are trying to close. So the "Customs and the unfortunate "inistry of Finance "can just whistle for the Agreement.

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But what Maze is after is to get the Hong Kong "Government to take effective measures to enforce "their new ordinance, which puts them in a position "practically to stop the shipment of unmanifested "cargo. In other words he wants to get the guts "of the Agreement by a side wind. Tith further "pressure from the Colonial Office it may be possible "to get the Hong Kong Government to take action."

I thought this information might possibly be

useful to you as a check and at any rate it is the

precis of a conversation with one of the protagonists.

Yours very truly,

H.R.Cowell Esq., C.M.G.,

Colonial Office 2

Whitehall, W. 1.

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