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native bottoms, with the Drainland.

។-

As Rule 5- to which the

Consul repres has no whatever

conceive

072

He

bearing

I can

no defence of the harsh

and unpriendly proccedings of the Chinese Authorities, except founded

ded on

تم کیسے

claim to treat

native vessels sailing under the

Chinese flag with

any

amount

of harshness and sunjustifiable

severity.

el

respectfully submit, however, that having entered into a Commercial Treaty with Great

Britain it is

contrary to

International Comily for a party

to that Ttreaty to adopt measures,

calculated to impede,

which are

and which, if the principle were extended, would wholly destroy all trade with Hongking

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in wessels belonging to the country

of the parties of the Treaty.

C

I have

no doubt that Your

Strace will easily see the gravity

of

the

question, and the dangerous tendency of the claims put forwaved by the Chinese authorities - Claims so dangerous

to the prosperity of this place that

I trust the action taken.

may

not be permitted to grow up

into

precedent difficult to spot

DEX.