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887 23 Aug previous Paper. 7.0. 3223 * Hong Kongiffe No. 17063 (Subject.) DOMESTIC. C. O. 17063 RECO\REG: 24 AUG 87, 4 30. Mr. Alexander M'Arthur,- To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, if it is a fact, as stated in the recent Consular Reports, and by the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, that, by order of the Home Government, French and German steamers carrying the mails obtain in British Colonial Ports the status of men of war, which includes freedom from arrest, freedom from search, and freedom from the operation of the habeas corpus, while those privileges, which give the vessels a prestige in the eye of shippers, are not granted to British mail steamers, which carry infinitely heavier mails:
And, if he can state why this arrangement in favour of Foreign steamers is made. [Friday 26th August.]
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23,208a) 6000 3-5
or Individual.
Date.
887
23 Aug
previous Paper.
7.0.
3223
*
Hong Kongiffe
No. 17063
(Subject.)
DOMESTIC. C. 0. 17063
RECO \REG: 24 AUG 87,
4
30. Mr. Alexander M'Arthur,-To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, if it is a fact, as stated in the recent Consular Reports, and by the Hong Kong
Id Chamber of Commerce, that, by order of the Home Government, French and German steamers carrying the mails obtain in British Colonial Ports the status of men of war, which includes freedom from arrest, freedom from search, and freedom from the operation of the habeas corpus, while those privileges, which give the vessels a prestige in the eye of shippers, are not granted to British mail steamers, which carry infinitely heavier mails:
And, if he can state why this arrangement in favour of Foreign steamers is made. [Friday 26th August.]
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