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Anglo Chinese. In past negotiations

with the Chinese authorities, the

two questions of extraterritoriality

and the protection to Anglo-Chinese have

been kept separate. The former is a

matter of securing or maintaining special

privileges for British subjects in China,

the latter is concerned in settling what

persons shall be regarded as British subjects

(or British-protected persons) in China,

and accordingly entitled both to extraterritoriality

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privileges and the ordinary rights of

British subjects abroad. It appears to

r. Thomas that there are considerable

advantages