CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12] — Page 421

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(REGE OB JAN 07

Government House,

Hongkong, 28th. December,1906.

My Lord,

Referring to previous correspondence on the

subject of the piracy of the 3.5. "Sainam", I have now the

honour to transmit for Your Lordship's consideration copy

of a letter from the Chairman of the Hongkong General

Chamber of Commerce, with its enclosures, on the subject

of the refusal of His Majesty's Government to support a

claim for consequential damages put forward by the owners

of the S.S. "Sainam" against the Chinese Government, and

asking that this Covernment will support the protest which

the Chamber, in the interests of British Trade in China and

of the trade of this Colony, has made against the decision

of His Majesty's Government.

2.

I am not in a position to endorse, or to

criticise, the amount of the indemnity ($150,000) which has

been asked for; but I may be permitted to express the

opinion that the enforcement of the payment of pecuniary

HE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

800.

&C.

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compensation