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practically completed.

2. As to the British American Tobacco Co. (China) Ltd.

the business of the Company will in future be controlled from

Hongkong where the Company and all members of the Head office

will be under British jurisdiction.

3.

If licences allowing non-British management of China

Companies were under any circumstances obtainable, a most invidious

and difficult task would be set H.M. Minister, and the Register

and also the Crown Advocate as his technical advisers in such

matters.

4.

If such licences were obtainable, the force and effect

of salutary provisions, the need of which has been felt for

years, would be seriously weakened.

5.

If any such licences were granted, good ground

of complaint would be given to those American and Japanese

who had heretofore controlled China Companies and who have

complied with the Order in Council and renounced the management

of auch Companies.

I have, etc.,

(Signed) H.P. Wilkinson.

Crown Advocate.

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