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closure No. 3 in Mr. Fox's No. 88, General Series, of August 9th. 1909.

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H.B.4. Consulate-General,

funton, July 26th. 1909.

Dear Sir Frederick lugard,

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versation on the subject of the "Falshan" case, I gladly

avail myself of your invitation to place the opinions

I expressed to you on that occasion in writing,

I cannot understand why lesers Butterfield and

Swire, the largest and probably the wealthiest British

firm in China, a firm who have for the past twenty five

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years, taken a prominent part in the development of British

murcantile enterprise in the Far East, a fim who have,

on more than one occasion, deliberately suffered financial

loss in order to maintain a principle or defund their

Treaty rights (I instance their successful efforts to

inugurate steam navigation on the West River and inland

waters of China), should, by reason of the threats and

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