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losure No.
in Peking No.
COPY
43
to Shanghai, Canton, Swatov.
of
Consul Eastes to H.M.Minister Peking.
120
K. B. K. Consulate,
AGOY.
sir,
2 Enslesures,
28th August 1922,
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Tessien Offica
of 20 oct. 1911
40. 1911
In your despatch Ne. 28 (6758/22) of August 10th you instructed me not to register as British subjects the children born in China of British subjects of
Chinese race.
In previous years however the births of several of such children have been registered in this Cenaulata occasionally with the special permission of His Maj- eaty's Secretary of State, obtained owing to the lapra of over seven years between the birth and the regis-
tration.
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I have the honour to enclose Correspondence,
marked in the margin, relative to one of these persons,
Fan Lu-tek, whene widowed mother has now raised the
question of her son's status.
The recognition of persons such as this youth as British subjecta is, needless to say, open to many obvious objections, not the least of which is the ixaquii inequity, vis à vis the Chinese Authorities, of with - drawing from their jurisdiction a person of pure Chin- ese rate, sympathies, habits and instincts, whose at tachment to the British empire is based solely on a alender` legal technicality, and those British status
sedulously concealed is, in the vast majority of cases,
exc ept
Beilby Alaton K.0.M.G.‚¤.B..
Bis Majesty's minister,
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etc.
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Pekin E.