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discharge of his duty in the Military
Sewice of Oh
conferred
X
Thina. The hereditary rank
on his family way be
:regarded as analogous to a
3.
in Eugland.
Nor is it
Baronetcy
only in the Chinese
Empire that Chinese Auerchants and
others educated at Hong Kong
rising to the
the
are-
The same is the
frout . The s
Case
Major Yip Fu was in commaud
e of a Chinese Corvette at the time of his death. Of
course, in China now, as in ancient Greece and Rome, and as in England up
to the end of the 17th century, the sauce. Officers hold both Naval and Military
Commands.
case in the great and growing Chinese Communities established at Singapore,
at
Penang, Settlements,
and in the other Straits
as also
in Java, in m
Boruco, in the Philippine Stands, asid indeed throughout the Malay Archipelage. Of these communities, an able and well-informed Euglish writer has recently remarked as follows : _ " Everywture and always
" in importance, are the Chiese "Colonists ; who have of late assumed.
"
a
- position, not murely of predominance "over all Asiatic competitors.
indigenous
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