Administer the British Settlement (which is Chinese soil vested in Great Britain) at Shanghai, bewildered for an extension of its borders gifts.
The Chinese Government at first refused the ground that the Municipality had permitted a limited number of Chinese Merchants and traders to reside in the Settlement when it might have economized space by refusing to admit them.
Does not the Chinese Government too place restrictions on the movements of British subjects in China without its permission, and does it not prohibit them from owning land outside the recognised Treaty Port?
In the face of the above facts is it conceivable that the Chinese Government, if it felt aggrieved, would raise objection to, or at, the principle underlying the Peak Reservation Ordinance?
When we remember that the persons principally affected by the Ordinance are the Chinese of Hongkong - especially that the Chinese community largely accepted the Ordinance as a reasonable measure?
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