CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7] — Page 139

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And in every Provincial city in China, there is a Tartar city where Manchus reside separate from Chinese? How is it not also set apart at Peking a Foreign Reservation, or Legation Quarter, where alone the members of the various Legations, and by special permission the officials of the Imperial Maritime Customs and their Chinese servants may live?

Are not the British Settlements at Tientsin and elsewhere, which are foreign soil leased to Great Britain; and the British Concessions at Hankow, Kiukiang, Chinkiang, Amoy, and elsewhere which are ceded in perpetuity to Great Britain, instead of European Reservations whose primary object was precisely that of the Peak Reservation Ordinance?

And do not the Chinese cheerfully consent to the British Municipalities which administer those Settlements and Concessions, prohibiting Chinese from residing there?

Why, when the Municipality which...

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138 Peking Capital And in every Provincial city in China, there is a Tartar city where Manchus reside separate from Chinese? How is it not also set apart at Peking a Foreign Reservation, or Legation Quarter, where alone the members of the various Legations, and by special permission the officials of the Imperial Maritime Customs and their Chinese servants may live? Are not the British Settlements at Tientsin and elsewhere, which are foreign soil leased to Great Britain; and the British Concessions at Hankow, Kiukiang, Chinkiang, Amoy, and elsewhere which are ceded in perpetuity to Great Britain, instead of European Reservations whose primary object was precisely that of the Peak Reservation Ordinance? And do not the Chinese cheerfully consent to the British Municipalities which administer those Settlements and Concessions, prohibiting Chinese from residing there? Why, when the Municipality which...
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138 Peking Capital And in Every at in Chuna Provincial a Tartar lity where Manchus rexode separate from Chinese? How it not also set apart at Peking a twerpenn Reservation, or Legation Quarter, where alone the members of the various regations, and by special permunicion the officials ofthe Imperial Maritime Customs and their Chineal Servants may live ? are not the British Settlements at Tientsin and ilsewhere, which are deinear soil leased to Great Britain; and the British Concessions at Hankow, Kinking, Chonkiang, Antommand Elsewhere which are ceded in perpetuity to Great Britain, instaar of lurpean Meservations whose promary object was precisely that и? of the Peak Reservation Ordinance And toe not the Chinese fort. Cheerfully consent to the Butiate Municipalities which administer those Settlements and Concessions, prohobiting Chinese from residing there ? Why, When the Manicifrating w'ich
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138

Peking Capital

And in

Every

at in Chuna

Provincial

a

Tartar lity

where Manchus rexode separate from

Chinese? How it not also set

apart at Peking a twerpenn Reservation, or Legation Quarter,

where alone

the members of the

various regations, and by special

permunicion

the officials ofthe Imperial

Maritime Customs

and their Chineal

Servants

may live

?

are not the

British Settlements at Tientsin and

ilsewhere, which are deinear soil leased to Great Britain; and the

British Concessions at Hankow,

Kinking, Chonkiang, Antommand

Elsewhere which are

ceded in

perpetuity to Great Britain, instaar

of lurpean Meservations

whose

promary object was precisely that

и?

of the Peak Reservation Ordinance

And toe not the Chinese

fort.

Cheerfully consent to the Butiate Municipalities which administer

those Settlements and Concessions,

prohobiting Chinese from residing

there ?

Why, When the Manicifrating w'ich

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