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7.
Practically all the organizations that have come
under unfavourable notice and from which the withdrawal
of British protection has been mooted are private companies.
A search in the files of the company registry would show
many such companies containing little or no British
capital, but the following are some that have had to be
referred to the Embassy during recent years on secount of
their undesirable activities. Those marked with an
asterisk have alreedy been deprived of British diplomatic
protection, while remaining under British jurisdiction.
Associated Investments Limited
Bata Choe Company, Limited
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British Far Eastern Company, Limited
British Kanchurian Investment and Trading Company,
Centrosojus (England) Limited
Limited
Economic Transport and Lighter Company, Limited
Finance Banking Corporation, Limited
Grigori eff and Company, Limited
Quaranty Underwriters Limited
* Moscow Narodny Bank, Limited
Overseas Egg and Produce Company, Limited.
8. The shareholding of private companies is already
restricted by law, The number of membera is limited to
fifty, apart from employees of the company, and no
invitation to subscribe for shares and debentures may be
issued to the public. It would therefore be perfectly
feasible, and in my opinion highly desirable, to insist
that at least a mejority of the shareholders and the greater part of the capital of private companies operating
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