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COPY.
C. O.
10287
Enclosure 2.
REC?
(REG: 24 MAR 06
Governor's Minute.
264
Hon. Colonial Secretary,
Obviously no proceedings are possible in the
Hongkong Courts.
The question is whether the Company which
runs the newspaper should be registered in this Colony.
It seems to me to be an abuse of exterritori-
-ality that a murder-advocating paper rua by Chinese in China
should receive British protection by registration in a British Colony of the Company that nominally owns it.
Nearly all the shares (75 out of 81) stand
in the name of 1 man an insurance agent living in Bankow who
is presumably a British subject. According to the Consul-General
at bankow the shareholders are really Americans and Chinese
Bostly the latter.
Please ask the Attorney-General whether the
fact of the Hongkong registration of the Company protects its
employés in China from being dealt with by the Chinese Courts and
if so how can that protection be taken from them.
(sd.) M. Nathan.
27th. August, 1905.