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an interdepartmental meeting might be arranged
I have kept this paper until 55020 and
connected papers had returned from circulation, as
I think that the Denatumalisation question will
have an important bearing on the present proposals.
S. R. & O No.603
of 1925
The proposals are set out in the course
of a long despatch from the Consul-General at
Shanghai dated the 30th October last. They are
occasioned by the fact that the present provisions
of the China Order in Council permit many companies
to claim protection under British jurisdiction,
and to receive the benefits of British diplomatic
protection, who are in fact not British at all, and
who compete directly with the genuine British
enterprises. Examples are Centrosojus and the
Moscow Narodny Bank, both Russian, and the Bata
Shoe Company, Czechoslovakian, which may claim
British protection in virtue of registration in the
United Kingdom, Hong Kong or Singapore or elsewhere
in the British Empire.
The Consul-General is advised that more is
necessary than a mere redrafting of Section 194 of
the Order in Council; for example, a hard and fast
definition of a "bona fide British company". He
cites the French regulations, which lay down
extremely clear, though necessarily arbitrary,
requirements, both as regards the citizenship of
those in control of the company in question and as
regards the ownership of capital. It is not regarded
as
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