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Government, that the privileges and immunities ac-
corded to British Subjects should be extended to per-
sons as to whose status the British Authorities them-
salves are doubtful and who well might, as in the
case of the Hongkong "undesirables", turn out to be
persons expelled from a British Colony for their own
misdeeds while residing in it.
I should be glad to learn whether Mr. Secretary
Harcourt is disposed to concur in the above views and
in the despatch of instructions in the same sense to
Copies of
His Majesty's Consular officers in China.
the correspondence are being sent to the India Office
for their information and any observations the Mar-
quess of Crewe may have to offer.
I em.
Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
Wangley