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H.M. SUPREME COURT,
SHANGHAI.
3rd July, 1939.
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My dear Broadmead,
With reference to the signed copy of King's Regulations No. 1 of 1939 entitled "The Shameen Land Regulations (Amendment) Regulations, 1939," transmitted to the Foreign Office with Embassy despatch No. 564, (9/92D/1939) of the 23rd June, I write to draw your attention to a typographical error which appears on the seventh line from the bottom on the first page. You will note the words reading
"an occasion of imminent danger of
great emergency has arisen
•
... •
The correct reading should be an occasion of imminent danger or great emergency has arisen..*
2.
These Regulations were obviously "borrowed" from King's Regulations No. 4 of 1929, which I was responsible for drafting when I occupied the post of Crown Advocate. The words quoted above were taken by me from Section 1 (1) of the Aliens Restriction Act, 1914, and I find that they were correctly written in the draft Regulations which I, as Crown Advocate, transmitted to the Legation at Peking with my despatch No. 14 of 17th December, 1928. Sometime later, however, the error must have crept in during the typing or printing, so that the "or" became an "or" in K.R.R. No. 4 of 1929 as finally approved by the Secretary of State.
And now we have the same error repeated in K.R.R.No.1 of 1939:
It occurs to me that you might consider it worth
while to ask the Foreign Office to correct the error in these Regulations before the same are "approved" and copies printed for
the public. There is still time for this.
3.
Yours sincerely,
(SIGNED) ALLAN G. MOSSOP.
P.M. Broadmead Esq., M.C.,
British Embassy,
SHANGHAI
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