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NFIDENTIA L.

Hongkong.

My Lord,

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Government HouseMAR 06

Hongkong, 23rd.February, 1906.

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At the request of His Majesty's

Minister at Peking received by telegraph, I have the

honour to transmit for communication to the Foreign Office

copies of correspondence etc., on the subject of the

seizure by the Viceroy of the two Kwang of a stock of coal

stored at Fati in Canton which was mortgaged to the Nation-

al Bank of China, Limited.

2.

The facts of the case are briefly

as follows:-

At the end of the year 1900, Mr. ---

Chou Tung Sheng who two years previously had been natural-

-ized a British subject and was then resident at Hongkong,

and Mr. Fung Wa Chứn, who was a British subject by birth,

Compradore to Messrs. Shewan, Tomes and Company and a

Justice of the Peace at Hongkong, entered into partnership

for the purchase of coal from the Société Française des

Carbonnages de Tonkin and its sale at Canton, each partner

subscribing

RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G...,

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80.

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