CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922 — Page 746

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the charpest and can be made dicaper:

to cut out compactitio,

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my Goverment womed to ready to abstesh all thes and make the port completely from. The result comes 1. that

the Canton of

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Whampoa port authority would to bankupt

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it is skamers

from Hughing. Starmers which trade where Europe and the East" do not as a mile make to Shayhai Sting Kong their final post. They go on

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of

and Japan there strances with not make a

unvor with heary charge for pilotage in order to call at a new port when they can unload their cargo for Canton and Sonete Clima generally at Haghing. They would require some reason

strong enough & counterbalance tax waste oture and the expenditure of coal involved. Even the small coasting staaners wowed not ho Echely to

to do so

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to do so unless offered some strong inducement. the nature of which it would be difficult of suggest.

-except possibly the initased facilition for snuggling opium out

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Prosity the idea.

and arms ints China.

is that ocean gong strammers