operation of Company Law should not be curtailed in any way. In view, however, of the many complicated questions hich are involved in the agrlicetion of Foreign Company law in China it will be better, before the Commission makes any recommendations in regard to it, that the British representative should refer (through His Majesty's Minister} to His Majesty's Government for further instructions, so that the whole question may be fully considered by the various Departments interested.
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(4) Chinese ships flying foreign flags.
A large amount of British capital is invested in vessels engaged in the coastal and river trade in China, and anything which brings foreign flags into disrepute might eventually lead to a demand by the Chinese Government for the withdrawal of foreign vessels from this trade. His Majesty's Goverment are herefore especially anxious to
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find some remedy for the abuse of Chinese vessels flying foreign flags, in respect of which both the Chinese authorities and the bona fide British shipowners have grave cause for complaint. It is possible that the Commission may be able to recommend a remedy satisfactory both to the Cinese Goverment and to the large British interests involved. But should it prove impossible to consider this question without raising the issue of the application of foreign Company Law, the instruc- tion at the end of Suction 22 should be followed.
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Missionaries in the Interior.
There has recently grown up a feeling among Misionaries that their labours in the interior of Chine for the benefit
of the Chinese people should no longer be carried on under
the protection/
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