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department bat of a number of different of fices ander
separate control, desling with different alusmen of
goods and with premises in different parts of the town.
Goods are detained for breaches of ill understood and
frequently changing regulations, md fines are imposed
and all sorts of petty impositions are invented. In a
recent case two British subje ata, entirely lanocent of
any wrong doing, were actually arrested and imprisoned
for twenty four hours under distressing sonditions,
before the Consal-General eald secare taciz release,
It seems undesirable that important British fizaad INI
insti tations ohould have sny connexion with loana
secured on revermes collected by wethods so detrimntal
to Britima trade. It is one of the objects of our policy
to find some remedy for the evils I have referred to
but our difficulties would be mɑh enhanced if in reply
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to oar representat loam the Chinese were able to sentend
that nothing could be done beokase the revenue in
question was pledged as security for a foreign loan.
Wider issues are involved than the relatious
tesen bngkong and Canton or the immediate interest
of/