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No. 824.
Sir.
No. 3.
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REG 24 MAR 06
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, Sub. November, 1905.
I bave the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter No. 216 of the Bra. instant, relating to the coal mortgaged by Mr. Fung Wa-chun to the National Bank of China and
enclosing a translation of a letter in which the Viceroy declines
to remove the attachment issued against this property.
2.
In reply, I am to request you to be good enough to inform the Viceroy that the Governor of hongkong bas thought it necessary to at once inform his Britannic Majesty's Minister, Peking, of the manner in which the just claims of a registered British Corporation have been ignored. I am also to ask you to represent to His Excellency both the desirability of keep- -ing the attached property intact and the liability of the Chinese Government to pay damages for any loss which the National Bank of China has suffered or may suffer by reason of the attachment of the
coal and any dealings with it.
3.
I am further to request that you will kindly inform the Viceroy that this Government does not propose to ask
Mr. Fung Wa-chün to proceed to Canton in connection with the
charges brought against Chou Tung Bhang whose extradition was
requssted by the Viceroy on the 15th. October last.
Britannic Majesty's Consul-General,
Canton.
I have etc.,
(Sd.) T. Sercombe Smith,
Colonial Secretary.