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ould be most rigorously opposed in the intersate
not merely or trad but of the position and prestige of
Brain in Hongkong/ino South China. The Inpori
torioins onotomo.shorn be retired to remove all 主のお
Itions from thn Incond verritory te aone pointe
on Chinocoterritory outside the hours of our nea
ono no further recognition should be afford-
ed then no further powers or privalacon granted th
in Hougxons, or in the now sorritory, than they now
POSTED IN Hongkong.
conconetoni
We should all be glad if they could be got rid of
entirely out of Hongkong and out of the surrounding waterai
and if the Chinese could be induced to colle at their Cus-
toms revenues in their ports ar every other nation does, and not on the high seas and by way of a blockade of our
An opportunity now occurs for the revision of
but any violon ought to be
ths oziotiontai
in the direction of the loosening of our bends and not of their being reddered nere stringent and more weighty.
(Signed) **O.J. PRANCIS.
Chairman.
China Association,
London.