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(Enclosure 1 in Mr. Carnegie's No. 280 Confidential of June 27, 1906)
Jin E. Salow
Sir Matthew Nathan to
547 Government House, Hongkong:
Confidential.
finreply please quote:- 5432/1905-C.S.Q,
May 6th, 1906. (Received Peking May 16th)
Sir,
I have the honour to transmit a print of correspondence that has passed in this Colony on the subject of the recovery under Article XXIII of the Tientsin Treaty of debts incurred in Hongkong by natives of China who abscond to China and have property there.
2. The principal points brought out in this correspondence are the following:-
(a). The past practice of this Government in cases of application for assistance in the recovering of debts when the debtors have absconded to China, in the majority of which cases no judgment has been obtained, has been, after the Government has satisfied itself of the bona fides of the applicant to recommend him to the British Consular Authority who, in the case of British subjects not of Chinese race or in clear cases of absconding with intent to defraud the creditor, has pressed the Chinese Authorities to secure satisfaction of the claim, but in the case of Chinese