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the Chimae authorities under the Company Law of China" in their capacity of foreign companies. If this be the case, it is unlikely that the Chinese Goverment would fail to point out this further inconsistency in the event of representations being addressed to along the lines suggested.
5. In the circunstances the okne as stated does not seem to be sufficiently convincing to offer any hopes of inducing an exceptional ruling from the Chinese Goverment. I would therefore be reluctant to take the matter un on a diplomatic level without further cogent considerations. In any case I would prefer to have the benefit of the views of the effics of His injesty's Minister (Commercial), to whom I am mɑcordingly copying this letter with a request for his comments and advice,
6. I am not mufficiently conversant to appreciate their purport with the ciroumstances and detrila reluting to the opening, or re- optaing, of Share Registers in Shanghai authorised by the Hong Yong Registrar of Companies in 1946 to which the Share Sub-Committee refer, This factor wuld appear to have considerable bearing on the case and I should therefore be glad if you could obtain from the Chamber of Commerce, to whom you are, of course, at liberty to disclose the above views confidentially, a concise memorandum on the sul jeat for nerusal by His Majest?'s Tabassy.
7. As this issue is likely to be of interest to the Government of Hong Kong, I am sending conies of this correspondence to His Excellency the Governor, as well, of course, as to the Foreign office.
I am
sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(L. H. LALOB)
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