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General Yang of the general staff, in reply to
an inquiry by the Military Attaché to the
Embassy at Peking, was unable to answer the
specific question whether a certificate of
denationalisation would be refused to a
British subject of Chinese race on the ground
that he was under 25 years of age, and
therefore liable to military service.
3 The Profiral
Sir John Brenan feels that the
deally with Buchah companhe
China local company legislation needs drastic
revision. At present foreign companies
such as Centrosojus Limited, and other
Soviet Government trading institutions
Bata
incorporated in London the (Czech) B
Shoe Company, incorporated in Singapore,
and many purely Chinese businesses incor-
porated in Singapore and Hong Kong,
operate in China under British extra-
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territorial jurisdiction. Many are even
in competition with British trade.
The previous difficulty in
dealing with such companies has been
the definition of what constitutes a
bona fide British company or a
"substantial British interest".
Sir John Brenan proposes that the
French regulations in this matter
should be followed. These provide that
companies can only enjoy extraterritorial
rights if they comply with certain
conditions, the principal of which are
as follow:-
"The President of the Board
of Directors, the Managing Directors,
the Auditors, at least two thirds
of
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