LAGENT
Inever attaches much
importance to the Hongkong Branch
Agency, and am not
sorry
at being
now driven from that field. In addition
to the
place,
important local stjections to the
conce
of which I have attempted
to point out, I have always
conesived
it stjectionable that the existence
да
on
the
omall British Colony Coach of China should be taken
advantage of to withdraw chinese people from finere Territory in
evasion
of
the surveillance which the
Ginese Authorities seek or
mcouraged
arw
& maintain over contract
migration, and in this view unce
I have been in charge of
t have not sent a
The Smigration
single Imigrant
from that Colony without having
Min
ØY
her brought before Chinese
officials exactly in the same way.
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al
though they had never trucked British
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reasury