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LUKE KWONG
* Robert Hart, the second Inspector-general, projected in 1906, "I doubt if the year 1930 will see any foreigners at all in the Chinese Customs." (The I. G. in Peking, II, p. 1511.) Also, see his other comments, Ibid, p. 1423 and p. 1528. Yet, this tradition of foreign predominance proved more tenacious than he had expected.
• See Chinese Maritime Customs, Service List, 1948.
"For a discussion of this feature of the Service, see Hosea B. Morse, The International Relations of the Chinese Empire, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1910-18, II, pp.140-41; also, Stanley F. Wright, Hart and the Chinese Customs, Belfast: Wm. Mullan & Son Ltd., 1950, pp.7-8 and pp.269-70.
• Arrangements are being made for this memoir to be published by Lung Men Press, Ltd., Hong Kong.