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HIS MAJESTY'S CONSULATE GENERAL
SHANGHAI,
April 12th, 1915.
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Sir: -
I have read with great interest the correspondence with the Board of Trade and the British Insurance Companies which you were good enough to forward to me in your despatch No.33 of March 18th,
It is, of course, a recognized principle in all insurance business that agencies should be placed primarily with a view to securing the business of the firm which holds the agency,
with the result that there are few mercantile houses with
extensive connexions which do not represent Insurance Com-
panies interested either in fire or marine risks. It follows
as a natural sequence that British companies in China, equally
with those in Japan, are anxious to place their agencies in the hands of those firms which require the heaviest insurance
policice, whether for marine or fire risks, for their ow
property, and that in normal times nationality of the firms
holding
Sir John Jordan, G.C.I.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G.,
His Majesty's Minister,
Peking.
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