448
Zi
or the Asylum. At that date the Vice-Consul for Sweden
refused to recognize Nylander as a Swedish subject, and
was accordingly sent to England by this Government which
in this connection incurred expenses amounting to £91
7.
3.
Upon Nylander's arrival in
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England, the Board of Trade took charge of him, and as the
Government of Sweden appears in the spring of 1909 to have
recognized his Swedish nationality, he was sent by the
Board of Trade to Gothenburg and in this connection further
expenses amounting to £27 9 2 were incurred.
•
A claim for the full sum of £118
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9 was thereupon lodged with the Vice-Consul for Sweden
at Hongkong, who referred the matter to the Consul-General
for Sweden in Shanghai. The latter has now replied that
the claim can neither be treated by him nor by the Vice
-Consul, but that it should be laid before the Swedish
Government through His Britannic Majesty's Legation in
Stockholm, and I have therefore to request that Your Lord-
i
-ship will be good enough to approach the Swedish Govern-
-ment in this matter and endeavour to obtain a settlement
of