the object of the sign is to satisfy customers that they are obtaining the actual goods of the foreign firm concerned.
I do not think any objection could properly be taken to the exhibition of signs indicating that the shopkeeper was the agent of a foreign firm,
I approve the answer returned by you to the Taotai's despatch, as reported in your despatch No. 7.
I am forwarding a copy of your despatches to His Majesty's Secretary of State and
you must take my present instructions as subject to his Lordship's approval.
I am, &c.
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(Signed) WALTER TOWNLEY,
Office or Individual.
Foreign
General
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A copy note to Hussey not consenting to proposal to request Japan (or to extend terms of prohibition of
the import of arms
Mr. Lucas
(Minutes.)
Annex, a copy of the Final Protocol of 1st Sept. 1901 (d. 13.9.01) from Article 5 of which it appears that the prohibition of the import of arms expires on
25 August next.
The Proclamation under the Foreign Enlistment Act is, I think, still in force, but it would no doubt be repeated when the Chinese edict expired, if there were renewing
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"Hong Kong is more closely concerned with the question than all the others put together; but