OOPY
(† 3230/3230/10)
To. 30
(and two copies) Core to Peiping.
H.B.M. Consulate-General,
Shanghai.
30th April, 1930.
Sir,
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with reference to the instructions contained in Foreign
Office despatch to His Majesty's Minister in Peiping No. 140
(F 795/603/10) of 21st February, 1928, I have the honour to
request your sanction to the endorsement of the registration
certificutes of two companies named hereinafter to the effect
that British protection cannot be accorded them in China.
2. The compaɛies in question are (1) The China Trust
Company, Limited, incorporated in Hongkong, and (2) the kion
Owen Company (India) Limited, incorporated in India.
3. In both cases, the directors and capital are almost
exclusively Chinese, The directors and shareholders of the
Kian Gwan Company are, with two exceptione, resident in the
Datoh East Indies, and one in Shanghai; they are all described
as of Dutch nationality. The directora and the majority of
shareholders in the China Trust Company are Chinese resident
in Hongkong and China, while the shares are issued in
Shenghai currency. The chief Thanghai representative is a
Chinese.
4. I have informed the two compar les concerned that the
que ation of their registration here is being referred to you,
that in the meantime their names are on the register for all
formal purposes, and that they are subject to the jurisdiction
of His Majesty's Supreme Court in China.
I have, etc.,
(8gd) E. Breman
Consul-General.
His Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Office,
London.
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