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Any further communication on the subject of this latter should be addressed
to
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,
HOME OFFICE,
LONDON, 8.W.,
and the following number quoted
201,178/3.
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C.O
15760
RECO HOMR-OFGIOMAY 13
WHITEHALL.
463
sir.
8th May, 1913.
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With reference to your letter of the 21st February (5616)
enclosing the petitions of E.5. and Ellis Kadoorie for the
grant of Letters of Denization, I am directed by Mr. Secretary
McKenna to say, for the information of Mr. Secretary Harcourt,
that he has, in omsultation with Sir Edward Grey, carefully
considered the petitions, but that he regrets that neither
case is one in which he can see his way to recommand the grant
of Letters of Denization.
Mr. McKenna thinks that the Messrs. Kadoorie must be left
to such opportunity as they may possess of obtaining British
nationality in the Colony of Hongkong under the Hmgkong
Naturalisation Ordinance of December 9th, 1902.
I am to add that it is stated in the Foreign Office letter
in the case that Sir Edward Grey was somewhat surprised to find
from the Petitions that Turkish subjects who describe themselves
as 'financiers' had been made Justices of the Peace for the
Colony of Hongkong.
he Under Secretary of State,
* Colonial Office.
I am,
sir,
Your obedient Servant,
عينا
DP Byrne.
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