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RECO (RFG15 FEB 13
HONGKONG.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
14th. January, 1913.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your Confidential Despatch of the 22nd. November last relative to the issue of Certificates to British subjects of Chinese race. Your instructions, that for the present the issue of Certificates to all the classes of British subjects mentioned in paragraph 3 of 149 my Confidential Despatch of the 9th. June, 1910, should continue without any limitation or restriction, will be carried out.
I may mention in this connection that enquiri- -es have been made as to whether the British Government would afford protection to British subjects of Chinese race who may desire to build country residences, for the purpose of week-end
visits, in the neighbourhood of the Railway between the frontiers
of the New Territories and Canton. It would appear from the cor-
-respondence ending with your Despatch under reply that the claim
to protect persons born in Hongkong of parents who are subjects of
China may eventually be modified and I would suggest accordingly
that applicants of this class should be informed that, if register- -ed at the Consulate-General at Canton, they will for the present
be able to claim British protection.
E RIGHT HONOURABLE
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient, humble servant,
Bre
Governor,&c..
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
MC...
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