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Sir: -

BOARD OF TRADE,

37561

Rece

Rraf 25 SEP 11

15th September, 1911.

I am directed by the Board of Trade to refer to Mr. Walter Langley's letter of the 28th ultimo trans- mitting, to be laid before the Board of Trade, copies of correspondence which has taken place on the subject of the registration of companies at Shanghai, together with the observations of His Majesty's Minister at

Peking; and in reply I am to say that the scheme cut-

lined in the letter has received the careful consider-

ation of the Board. If Sir Edward Grey still thinks

that it is desirable, the Board of Trade will do all

in their power to facilitate a system of registration

in London of companies desirous of having their head-

quarters established in Shanghai, under which the

applications for registration might be made at Shanghai

and the registered offices of the companies and the

registers of shareholders might be kept there.

The

Board of Trade, however, are inclined to think that

he Under Secretary of State,

Foreign Office.

greater