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Such refusal would, often t least, be based on

;

reports from this or other offices; and this I

take to be the reason for the provision that k

llis Lajesty's Consul-Generel at Shanghai may have

and secure for other Consular officers noceas to

the Deputy registrar's recorda, which is the sole

mention of Consular participation in the new scheme

My own experience confirms the Assistant

Judge' a

distr

istrust of the fitness of a longkong

officer to fulfil the duties of regularising the

position of British China,

As reported at the time a company registered

in longkong in 1900 with promoters mainly Chinone

and American, to conduct a Chinese newspaper in

our Concession at llenkor, published in Chinese

a leading article urging the wholeanle murder of

officiala: at the Viceroy's instance I asked the

Colonial Government to take steps to amul the

registration: but i was told that nothing whatever

could