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clear whether any of the proposals refer to life insurance.

3. Attempts to define the conditions of non-alien control

con be found in the following enactments:-

(n) The Chins (Companies) Order in Council, 1915(see

the 1916 volume of Orders in Council, p. 183.

(b) The British Ships (Transfer Restriction) Act, 1916,

6 and 7 Geo. 5 c. 42.

(c) The Nigerian draft Ordinance.

(d) The Straits Settlements Alien Enemies Vinding up

Ordinance, 1917, Ordinace No. 6 of 1917.

4. Two questions suggest themselves. One is whether Hongkong should recept adopt the proposed policy without regard to other parts of the Empire. The other is whether Hongkong should recommend the policy for the Expire and should be prepared to

adhere to it if adopted in other parts of the Empire.

5. Hongkong seems too small to adopt the policy alone, though

the volume of insurance business here may be very large for the

size of the Colony. For one thing, it might drive a good degl of

marine insurance business elsewhere. Proposal (c) would probably

be outside the power of local legislation to effect. The objection to the proposals as Imperial policy apply also to the special case of Hongkong. In the case of marine insurance there is also the special objection that it might lead to exports of Chinese produce being insured at Canton.

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6. Possible objections to the proposed policy as an Imperial

policy are the following:-

(a) It may be doubted whether protection would be the

best policy either for the public or for the British

companies.

(b) The policy has never been tried, so far sa I know,

and its effects are unknown.

(c) Discrimination might lead to reprisals. The House

of Lords Committee were opposed to discrimination

in the case of life insurance companies on the very

ground.

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