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Tu, the late Editor of the newspaper or against the

Company in the Hongkong Courts.

To this the Colonial Secretary

replied on the 26th. July, 1905, that the Government was

advised that no proceedings against the Newspaper Company

would be possible in the Courts of the Colony, that none

of the shareholders were resident here and that a watch

would be kept on Wu in the event of his being found in the

Colony.

5.

In reply to a semi-official letter

from Consul-General Fraser dated the 18th. August, 1905,

the Colonial Secretary communicated to him minutes by my-

-self and the Attorney-General dated respectively the 27th.

and 28th. of August, 1905, of which I enclose copies.

6.

In the correspondence covered by

Your Lordship's Despatch under acknowledgment the Consul-

-General submits two suggestions, viz.:-

(a)

(b)

that the Hongkong Government should

insist that a Company proposing to

function in China should be always under

a British Managing Director:

that a Hongkong Company doing business

entirely beyond the bounds of the

Colony should on proof of the convict-

-ion of its directorate on a criminal

charge