ONFIDENTIA I.
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Hongkong.
21149
Rece
R 11 JUL 10.
12304
My Lord,
90
Government House,
9th. June, 1910.
04
With reference to Mr. Alfred
Lyttelton's Confidential Despatch of the 6th. of May, 1904,
and to previous correspondence on the subject of the
status in China of British Subjects of Chinese race born
in Hongkong, I have the honour to transmit for Your Lord-
-ship's information the enclosed copy of a translation,
prepared in His Britannic Majesty's Legation at Peking and
furnished to this Government by the courtesy of His Bri-
-tannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires there, from the text
of the Chinese Law of Nationality sanctioned by Imperial
Decree of March 28th., 1909, and published in the Official
Gazette of March 31st. in the same year.
2.
I am advised that the words
translated "Chinese" in Article 1 (a) and in Article 5 (a)
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CREWE,
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are