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or the Asylum. At that date the Vice-Consul for Sweden

refused to recognize Nylander as a Swedish subject, and

was accordingly sent to England by this Government which

in this connection incurred expenses amounting to £91

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Upon Nylander's arrival in

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England, the Board of Trade took charge of him, and as the

Government of Sweden appears in the spring of 1909 to have

recognized his Swedish nationality, he was sent by the

Board of Trade to Gothenburg and in this connection further

expenses amounting to £27 9 2 were incurred.

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A claim for the full sum of £118

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9 was thereupon lodged with the Vice-Consul for Sweden

at Hongkong, who referred the matter to the Consul-General

for Sweden in Shanghai. The latter has now replied that

the claim can neither be treated by him nor by the Vice

-Consul, but that it should be laid before the Swedish

Government through His Britannic Majesty's Legation in

Stockholm, and I have therefore to request that Your Lord-

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-ship will be good enough to approach the Swedish Govern-

-ment in this matter and endeavour to obtain a settlement

of