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any reference to a list of open ports, especially

since we had hoped th t with the abolition of the

treaty port system it was not the intention of the

Chinese Government to continue to confine foreign

overseas shipping to particular ports. You will have

in mind the observ. ti no on this point made in the

memorandum contained in my letter of the 23rd November under 1(6).

It will be noted that paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of the annex to be attached to the Sino-British exchange of notes doal respectively with the following subjects:-

Restrictions on the right of travel, residence and the carrying on of commerce

Owing to special difficulties in some of the British territories t which the treaty applics e.g. India, it will probably be necessary for us in the exchange of notes, or in an agreed minuto, to stipulate that nothing in the treaty sh 11 prevent (a) the applic tion of restrictions on travel, residence and the carrying

on of commerce by the nationals of one Party in

the territories of the other, if the same restrictions are also applied to the nationale of the latter;

(b) the application in wartime of restrictions on travol and residence by the nationals of one Party, imposed for

the/