CO129-510-10 Financial loan from Hong Kong government to Canton Provincial government 3-4-1928 - 3-8-1928 — Page 24

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department bat of a number of different of fices ander

separate control, desling with different alusmen of

goods and with premises in different parts of the town.

Goods are detained for breaches of ill understood and

frequently changing regulations, md fines are imposed

and all sorts of petty impositions are invented. In a

recent case two British subje ata, entirely lanocent of

any wrong doing, were actually arrested and imprisoned

for twenty four hours under distressing sonditions,

before the Consal-General eald secare taciz release,

It seems undesirable that important British fizaad INI

insti tations ohould have sny connexion with loana

secured on revermes collected by wethods so detrimntal

to Britima trade. It is one of the objects of our policy

to find some remedy for the evils I have referred to

but our difficulties would be mɑh enhanced if in reply

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to oar representat loam the Chinese were able to sentend

that nothing could be done beokase the revenue in

question was pledged as security for a foreign loan.

Wider issues are involved than the relatious

tesen bngkong and Canton or the immediate interest

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