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the Foreign Office, that only bona fide residents in Hong- -kong, who were born in the Colony and have been permanently established in business there, should receive certificates, has been ignored.
8. Before discussing the hostility of the Consular Service to the extension of protection to Class 3 it should be noted that according to Sir E. Satow "such pro- -tection is at the present moment actually accorded in numerous cases without provoking any objection on the part of the Chinese Government". This fact removes what might
have been a very serious objection to the 1904 instruct- -ions, and everything contained in further correspondence on the subject is confirmatory of it. The Chinese Provinci- -al Authorities have never distinguished persons in Class 3 from the children of Chinese who were themselves British
subjects.
9. But although the Chinese Government has made no
distinction between these two classes the Consular Service
has. Mr. Hausser, His majesty's Consul at Aroy, says that
persons in Class 3 have proved a very troublesome and under-
-irable class but that was previous to the issue of the 1904 instructions (!), and subsequent apparently to the issue of
these instructions, the Consuls at Canton and Swatow com-
-plained of "low class Chinese who abuse the rights of
British subjects for "their own objects". It was in view of
these complaints that Kr. Bourne mede suggestions as to the amount of protection which should be afforded persons in Class 3, and it is noteworthy as shewing how untenable the Consuls objections are, that these suggestions differ very little from Sir Henry Blake's proposals. For while Sir Henry Blake asked for nothing more than the good offices of the Consul in case of injury to person or property bey- -ond Treaty Port limits, Mr. Bourne suggests that the Consuls should do nothing more than see that the holder of a certificate in class 3 receives justice according to
the
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