CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879 — Page 176

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And which is forwarded from Chinese residents at Shanghai is similar to

forwarded to Lord Staulay at the (for the most

one

Fo. ly

the same men

part) at the time of the fromulgation

f

the circular

Lo Juan Yew's afhearing in the front of both

also that at Amay

It appears also that at

name

the

new regulations were received with little. disfavour, love considered necessary by the respectable Chinese and were adopted by

most at any rate at the time;

the consul

the

noting

that in many

cases

Chinese attached to themselves rufiles

with the Queen's Head outside

were

Queen Vic- to show that they "toria's men" (a Suggestion that may be useful in the present case")

the Chinese from the Straits

As regards

it is well known what a nuisance the Scoret Societies are in that colony. and to such Societies the Chinese

goranment are

utterly opposed : It is

not there fore advisable to

C

men

any

When they

give

Such

faculiar countenance

Visit China.

172

Sir. R. Alcock defended his regula.

·tions on the ground that the Chinese

their minds to

should make Ich

which nationality they would belong, that they

China as

should not visit

Chinese and

they got into a

directly

Scrape. Claim

Вечаре.

then and there British protection

and it appears to me that this view I is the only just and only practicable

One

Consequently (apart from any degal deferring point in the case) I should reply to the LEO. that while we defor to the fatition and to Sir. T. Wade's recommendation so far as to agree to a modification of the costume regulations, yet Sir. M. Hicks Beach.

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