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No. 9382/14.
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The Uniler-Secretary of State.
Foreign Office.
London.
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1914.
I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter No. 5751/1914 of February 28th,
enclosing a despatch from the Governor of Hongkong relative
to the deportation of undesirable Chinese British subjects
from that Colony.
With regard to the suggestion contained in §2 of Sir
F. H. Lay'a despatch "that consular registration of Hongkong
born Iritish subjects should not be effected without the
production of a Hongkong British-born certificate", I am to
point out that, by Article 162 of the China Order in Council
1904 every British subject in China is bound to register him-
self at a British Consulate, and that the Order in Council
contains no requirements as to the kind of evidence he is to
adduce to establish his British nationality. Ah amending
Order in Council could no doubt be issued in the sense of
Sir
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Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.