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of British commerce and causes injury to British interests in
general.
I am one of many who have been subjected to the
same treatment, though the British consul general, Mr. Drummond
Hogg, is always appealed to on these occasions, and he does ell
he can in our favour on each occasion.
Meanwhile a great loss of time, money and dignity
has been suffered, much friction and 111-feeling been caused
by this high handed and really abusive action.
Considering the frequency of these incidents, which
create on the part of the French officials in Indo-Ching a
breach of international etiquette, and a gross insult to the
high immunity afforded by the protection of a British passport,
I beg Your Excellency to give the British consul at Saigon the
necessary instructions, enabling him to cope with this
delicete but very important question, importent inasmuch as it
is an attempt to make a breach in the immunity and I might
say the sanctuary afforded by a British passport to a British
subject.
I may give,
Begging Your Excellency's pardon for any trouble
I beg Your Excellency etc.
K.G.Lau.
(Signed)