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of the British creditors. At the same time he accused
His Pajeety'e Acting Consul General at Canton of adhering
too strictly to juristic principles in dealing with the
Chinese, thereby affording the British merchants less pro-
tection than wee afforded to moet other nationalities by
the Consular Representatives.
In forwarding Sir T.Piggott letter to the Secretary
of State for the Colonies, Sir .Lugard referred to a
suggestion pace by Yr.absfield, late Consul General at
Canton, that a remedy for the condition deplored by Sir F.
Piggottnight be found in a reciprocal arrangement with
regard to bankruptcy between the Tongkung Government and
the Provincial Governmert at Canton, evel an arrangement
involving in all probability the creation of a lankruptcy
Court in Canton as a Department of the Magistracy.
It will be remembered what this sucroation of Mr.
Mansfield arose out of a lengthy previous correspondence
on the wider subject of the recovery under Article XX111
of the Treaty of Tientsin of debts incurred in Hongkong
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by natives of Chine who abscond to China and have prop