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no ground for exclusion on that score. To exclude them
on other grounds may be to force them to establish
themselves elsewhere when otherwise they would not do
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To lot them establish themselves elsewhero may be
fatal. My anxiety at the advocacy of any policy which
will tend to stimulate them to get a port established in
the neighbourhood of the Colony, which they have already
threatened to do, will be well understood.
It is conceivable that, under any circumstances,
they will endeavour to establish such a port. That
cannot be holped. It would, in my judgment, be gravely
unwise to take any stops to urge them to do so. We
have an object lesson in what within 20 yours they affected
in Tsingtau.
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In my judgment the Committee and the members of
the Chamber of Commerce, in their confidence at the
ability of the British Morgant to meet any German
competition - a confidence I do not doubt ila amply
justified lost sight of the fact that the progress
of British trade is not necessarily synonymous with
the progress of the Colony. It is to the interest
of the Colony in the first place that as much trade as
possible should pass through it and secondly that as
much of that trade as possible should be done by the
British Mercant. The trade of the British Merchant
in the Colony and in ghina might increase but the trade
of the Colony might decrease and while it is to the colony's interest that the trade of the British Merchants
established here should be fostered to the utmost extent
its interests are equally as national and international.
12.
If the neighbouring countries of China, Japan,
Rusala and the Philippine Islands could be persuaded to
exclude and lioence the Gormans as the resolutions
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