CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926 — Page 479

companies in the Colony for the purpose of rumming strikes on

upper Jong-te.

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of your confidential despatch dated 20th December, 1926,

enclosing copy of a memorandum on the subject of steam

navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze.

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This Government has no knowledge of the cases referred to in the second paragraph on page 6 of the memorandum where Chinese are said to have attempted to incorporate companies in Hong Kong with the object of owning ships to ply on the Upper Yang-taze under the Red Ensign.

Every possible care is taken to see that the registration of

ships in Hong Kong is allowed only within the provisions of

the law.

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The steamer referred to as registered in Southampton and owned by a company composed of Chinese, incorporated in Hong Kong is, I presume, the S.S. Fushun, built at Southampton, which appeared on the Yang-taze in 1926. This vessel did not belong to any company incorporated in Hong Kong, but to a British born subject named Fung Keng Yu (544, 4). It is said to have been sold to the Chung Yi Company, a Chinese company of Ichang, the sale having been

put through at the British consulate at Hankow about December

1926. Mr. Fung Keng Yu thinks that the "Fushun is now under i

the Italian flag, but states that he has nothing to do with

RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

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