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90.
a natural arrangement to watch over a development
of trade relations already recognised in our
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Commercial Treaty of 1902.
With every respect for the Court, to the Judges
of which I am furnishing copies of this despatch
1 must, therefore, adhere to all the views express-
ed in my despatch, No 31, of 18th March, 1911.
Mr Bourne has directed my attention to Bir
Lalcolm kollwraith's opinion on "the status of
British Companies in Egypt" published in the
Jermal of the Society of Corest"Mye Legislation
for July 1911.
That the conditions therein described are
closely analogous to those of the China companies
over which hongkong persists in claiming control
one extract will show:-
"Enterprises, whose business was mainly, 11
"not exclusively concentrated in Egypt were thus
*formed in the guise of British joint-stock con-
'panies and this in spite of die fact that it appears
*to