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Such refusal would, often t least, be based on
;
reports from this or other offices; and this I
take to be the reason for the provision that k
llis Lajesty's Consul-Generel at Shanghai may have
and secure for other Consular officers noceas to
the Deputy registrar's recorda, which is the sole
mention of Consular participation in the new scheme
My own experience confirms the Assistant
Judge' a
distr
istrust of the fitness of a longkong
officer to fulfil the duties of regularising the
position of British China,
As reported at the time a company registered
in longkong in 1900 with promoters mainly Chinone
and American, to conduct a Chinese newspaper in
our Concession at llenkor, published in Chinese
a leading article urging the wholeanle murder of
officiala: at the Viceroy's instance I asked the
Colonial Government to take steps to amul the
registration: but i was told that nothing whatever
could