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(16/50/1934)
Cop d to:
Comm.Couns.
Sub-Legn.
Crown Advocate Hongkong.
Foreign Office.
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BRITISH LEGATION. PEKING.
11th October, 1934.
Dear Brenan,
I have been asked by Kent of the British American
Tobacco Company what my attitude would be towards a formal
application which his company proposes to make through you as
Registrar, on behalf of two companies (the Yee Tsoong Tobacco
Co., Ltd., and the Yee Tsoong Tobacco Distributors, Ltd.) to be
incorporated in Shanghai to undertake business now done by the
British Cigarette Company and the British American Tobacco
Company, for licenses under Section 93 (2) of the Companies
Ordinance, 1932, exempting them from prefixing the characters
to their Chinese name in notices, advertisements,
official publications, bills of parcels, invoices, receipts,
trade catalogues, trade circulars, show cards, and business
letters, but not in contract deeds, bills of exchange, promissory
notes, endorsement s, cheques, orders for money or goods, or
letters of credit. Kent does not know whether they also wish
to omit the characters from the Chinese name, if any,
exhibited at the companies' offices or which may be used in
their seals. Such partial exemption only is to be applied
for because the company are under the impression that the
provisions of Section 93 (2) were inserted so that anyone
dealing with a China Company would have notice of its
Sir John F. Brenan, K. C.M.G.,
His Majesty's Consul-General,
SHANGHAI.
extraterritorial/