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cases a certificate should be registered with the Consul
whose duty it would be to inform the Chinese local authorities
of the presence of a Chinese British subject.
3.
Sir E Satew had shown to me the copy of his memorandum of
the 15th June in which I concur, and I have read carefully the
correspondence enclosed with your despatch, especially the
instructions given by Lord Roseberty on page 26. But the
situation has changed since 1894, and we know that in practice
the Chinese Government has yielded to the demands of other
nations that are not sustainable by any academic interpretation
ef International Law. Chinese Subjects, by simply declaring
their adhesien te French or German missions are supported and
protected in such a manner as practically to remove them from
the operation of Chinese jurisdiction. Chinese law is admirable
and forms a plausible basis of argument against foreign inter-
ference; but it practice varies with the character of the
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mandarin, and if protection be withheld the fact that a Chinese
had become a naturalised British subject would be a ground for
illegitimate squeezes or robbery on the one hand, and refusal of
redress