CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12] — Page 44

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FOREIGN OFFICE,

S.W. 1.

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22nd November,

1920.

My dear Risley,

On returning to the Office after eighteen months

in Paris, it is quite agreeable to find our old friend

China Companies still going merrily on. I am writing to ask you how the matter stands at your end, because we have received from Peking a copy of a Despatch which has been received there from the Governor of Hong Kong (No.601,

July 27th) of which a copy has apparently been sent to you, The position and I do not quite know what to do about it. appears to be that in July last you requested the Governor of Hong Kong to amend the Companies Ordinance of 1915 in order to coincide with the China Companies (Amendment) Order in Council,1919 (see your letter of July 24th to us, No.34355/20), and since then correspondence has been passing between Hong Kong and Peking in which the former gives reasons,which do not appear to the latter very satisfactory,

The last step here was

that!

for not taking the desired action.