CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905 — Page 623

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No. 357.

My Lord:-

BRITISH LEGATION,

PEKING.

C. O.

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REC

[Rac 2570005) 616

October 30th, 1905.

I have the honour to enclose a copy of the

Intelligence Report for the September Quarter which

has been sent to me by His Majesty's Consul General at

Hankow, and would invite Your Lordship's attention to

Mr. Fraser's remarks on pages 2 and 3 on Hongkong Com-

panies, in the justice of which I entirely concur.

There are also some observations on pages 3 and 4 of

the Hankow Intelligence Report for the June Quarter

(enclosed in my despatch No. 258) which bear on the

same subject. It seems a flagrant abuse of the Hong-

kong Companies' law for persons who are not British

subjects to form themselves into a Company for the

purpose of publishing newspapers in China in the

Chinese language, in order to avail themselves of

The Marquess of Lansdowne, K.G.,

&c.,

&c.,

&c.,

British