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seriously damage either British trade or

interests. In so far, however, as they

concern Chinese-operated companies

incorporated in Singapore and Hong Kong,

they would appear most undesirable on

the grounds (a) that they would run

counter to the present policy of

encouraging British trade in China by

every possible means, and (b) on the

more specific grounds that it would be

an unjustifiable hardship to Chinese Buhik subjects

living in the British Empire who who

ightly look upon themselves as British

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the present proposals owing to the

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