CO129-298 - Governor Sir Blake Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [3-4] — Page 208

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Apparently the above arrange ment if carried

out, will satisfy the HongKong Shipping Firms to some

extent as it will allow those of their steamers

exclusively employed on the West River to trade on

the River with Treaty Ports and non-Treaty Ports alike

It will not however allow steamers from Hong Kong or

other places outside China to do so.

I must, however, confess that I have much

dufficulty in understanding why, if the principle

of registering inter -Treaty Port steamers under

Inland Navigation Regulations is once accepted as re-

gards the West River or even certain ports on the

West River that principle should not be extended

so as to allow all Foreign steamers to trade with

non-Treaty Ports.

T.C.M.

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