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Perhaps Ford Elgin will consult M. Lloyd George as to whether there would be any
hour in
Now letting the colonial garnment draft an demanded Emigration ordinance If the general question can be tablen up, the new draft would include
the
points
Jaised in
FIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
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Hongkong, 31st. May, 1907.
Referring to Your Lordship's
Confidential Despatch of the 7th. September, 1906, and
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previous correspondence on the subject of the restrictions
thought well that the matter should Still sleep. the draft on 23974 migal be allowed by itself.
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with any point requiring Imperial Legislation C.Pd.
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I should send
imposed by the Chinese Emigration Ordinance, 1889, on the
carriage of indentured coolies by British Vessels, I have
the honour to enquire whether it is yet possible to make
a further pronouncement regarding this matter.
2.
It would seem from the above
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quoted Despatch and from Mr. Tyttelton's Confidential
My new he Janis already vende..
fully expres It has cust no alterate
q Despatch of the 28th. April, 1905, that the principle of
OS
the amendments which it is desired to make in the Ordinance
is not disapproved of by His Majesty's Government, and it
is unnecessary to recapitulate the arguments which have
already been advanced at length to show how important it
regard
to this a 23279: the correspondence to
Lis
and this period of
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hi Lloyd pean shald ser: then I had seen
to keep the did not feel unclead to hear in R malle
is in the interests of the British Shipping Trade in the
Far East that these amendments should be allowed.
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RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
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