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native bottoms, with the Drainland.
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As Rule 5- to which the
Consul repres has no whatever
conceive
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He
bearing
I can
no defence of the harsh
and unpriendly proccedings of the Chinese Authorities, except founded
ded on
تم کیسے
claim to treat
native vessels sailing under the
Chinese flag with
any
amount
of harshness and sunjustifiable
severity.
el
respectfully submit, however, that having entered into a Commercial Treaty with Great
Britain it is
contrary to
International Comily for a party
to that Ttreaty to adopt measures,
calculated to impede,
which are
and which, if the principle were extended, would wholly destroy all trade with Hongking
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in wessels belonging to the country
of the parties of the Treaty.
C
I have
no doubt that Your
Strace will easily see the gravity
of
the
question, and the dangerous tendency of the claims put forwaved by the Chinese authorities - Claims so dangerous
to the prosperity of this place that
I trust the action taken.
may
not be permitted to grow up
into
precedent difficult to spot
DEX.