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to the Anglo-Chinese Convention

of 1904 should be resisted, and would

refer in this connection to the

correspondence ending with F.0.

letter A. 4085 /28/52 of the 18th

of August, 1925.

In addition to this contention

(37834/15)

the Chinese authorities allege that there are

certain abuses in respect of the

management of the boarding-houses

in which intending emigrants are

lodged while in Hong Kong. In view

of the denial of the Hong Kong

authorities that these abuses exist, and

also of the Government control

exercised over these boarding houses

under Sections 42-46 of the Asiatic

Emigration Ordinance No. 30 of 1915,

Mr. Thomas

Thinks it may unlikely that

There

legations.