CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912 — Page 531

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90.

a natural arrangement to watch over a development

of trade relations already recognised in our

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Commercial Treaty of 1902.

With every respect for the Court, to the Judges

of which I am furnishing copies of this despatch

1 must, therefore, adhere to all the views express-

ed in my despatch, No 31, of 18th March, 1911.

Mr Bourne has directed my attention to Bir

Lalcolm kollwraith's opinion on "the status of

British Companies in Egypt" published in the

Jermal of the Society of Corest"Mye Legislation

for July 1911.

That the conditions therein described are

closely analogous to those of the China companies

over which hongkong persists in claiming control

one extract will show:-

"Enterprises, whose business was mainly, 11

"not exclusively concentrated in Egypt were thus

*formed in the guise of British joint-stock con-

'panies and this in spite of die fact that it appears

*to