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Law Officers December 13, 1895
FOREIGN OFFICE,
Past 7 001
October 5, 1898.
Sir:-
I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to
transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Secretary
Chamberlain, copies of two despatches from Her Majes-
ty's Minister at Peking, relative to a question which
has been raised by Her Majesty's Consul at Canton
respecting the protection of British Companies regis-
tered in Hongkong though promoted by Chinese subjects.
Lord Salisbury entirely concurs in the view ex-
pressed by Sir Claude MacDonald in his despatch of
August 3rd, that the possibility of every firm in Can-
ton being made nominally British with an obligation
on the Consuls part to extend protection to it, is one
which cannot be contemplated without serious misgiving
and would inevitably give rise to serious abuses.
It appears to His Lordship that it is out of the
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
question
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