CO129-542-12 Smuggling from Hong Kong into China 21-1-1933 - 21-8-1933 — Page 78

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cases of smuggling by the Chinese crews of British ships.

I hope I shall not have to take the question up

orricially, for, sa we know, its moote are so deeply en-

bedded in the distant neat that one cannot tell where such

a controversy, once started, will end.

vill now have to be reported hore. In the meantime my I

beg you to moderate the seal of your Commissioners in the

hope that further cause for commleint on the nert of our

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shipping people may not arise *

The whole story

There is one more point I should like to make, and

that is that I cannot admit that there is any justifiestiən whatever for the contention sut forward by the omissioner

of Customa et Amoy that the Tariff Autonomy Treaty of 1928

gives the Cuatoma a free hand to inflict fines; in feet this

point is quite irrelevant.

Yours sincerely,

(STONED) WIL V. LAMPSON.