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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
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