Shanghai, 7th July, 1897.
—The attention of the Committee of this Chamber. having been.called: to the case of the Bank of China and Japan, Ld, against its Chinese, Contributories in the matter of the refusal of the latter to carry out their engagements as regards the pay-manta of the calls due upon their shares, I have the honour: to submit herewith two memoranda in which the particulars of the ti 3g it, are fully set out. case, and the attitude of the Chinese Authoriies regarding,
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