CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898 — Page 393

of

H. Mis (onsul at Canton

ot at other Chihase l'owns

Chisia

when trading in the city.

2 In reply I have to inform you

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that it

you that H. Mis # of 5 for Foreign Affairs Splishing is of opinion has recently been in communi-

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catóm with Si C. Mae Ponald

that)

on this subject this

question that a

out of than

Lordship

Company provested

by Chinese subjects o

carrying

on

business in China with

Chinese Capital should be

granted

: autec British protection by

reason

the

mere

fact of

it's having been registered in

British Colony, since in that

· case it would be possible for

every firen

in Caulon to

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become nominally British

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with

all

obligatio

or

Consul part to extend

protection to it.

present

0..of

Jun 1895 the p2.0.

the frown

advised that the prncifulen

ought

wot

to be recognind

that Foreigners by registering

themselves in

Chat C

This Country

Limited Company

ara

entitled to claim from H. His

Gost

the protection afforded to

British subjects in foreign Counties.

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