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FOREIGN OFFICE,
November 10th, 1910.
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My dear Jordan:-
Here are the papers about this tiresome
question of Anglo-Chinese which I mentioned to you a
day or two ago, and about which we don't wish to take
any decided step without first ascertaining your views.
I send you a copy in print of a recent
despatch from Max Miller and also of a letter from the
Colonial Office with observations thereon by the
Department and the legal advisers.
Do you think we might ask the Chinese to
agree to some period, say six months, to enable them
to opt for Chinese nationality if they so wished, ex-
plaining that this ought to have been done at the time
and that it would be a good thing to repair the
omission now. I merely throw this out as a possible
solution of the difficulty.
I think it is clear that the children of
Chinese parents resident in Hongkong, at the time of
its cession, must be deemed to be absolutely British
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