The Archive · 1930

Harbour Office

However, the Hongkong Government is quite willing to go through. the extra trouble of preventing smuggled goods from leaving British i and slipping into Chinese waters, but in return the local administration, according English daily, expects the Chinese Government to make certain conees-sions. That paper says that the auth-louties of this colony have no desire to shield smugglers, but that if special facilities are expected by the Chinese Government to suppress] Jeontraband trade from this Colony, the Hongkong Government is enti to some special privileges in return. Oficials have not yet divulged the vulture of these return privileges and concessions.

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