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No. 3 in Buster despatch No. 8 to Foreign Office of May 26, 1924.
Dongul
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Legation,Peking.
Swat ow, March 31, 1924.
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Sir.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch Ho.1 (1682/24), of March 15, 1984, on the subject of the claim to British nationality of a ir, Yeap Song Koon
of Swa tow.
The despatch inquestion was transmitted to me by His Majesty's Crown Advocate, and, in his socompanying letter, Mr. Wilkinson says :- "I coneur in the opinion expressed that Mr. Yeap Seng Koon, whose father and grandfather were born in Penang, and who has been himself registered in China as a British subject, is a British subject in accordance with Section 1 of the British Nationality and Status of
Aliens iet 1914–22.
In this case, in my opinion, no question of double nationality is really involved; and I have the honour to
and inform the Chinese Author- advise you to register as,
ities concerned that Mr. Yeap Bong Loon is, a British subject, and that any notification to the contrary was made
in error".
At page 10 of my Intelligence Report for October, 1923,-March, 1924, which should by new be in your hande, will be found a reference to Yeap Seng Loon's case. The facts which are not in dispute are i-
(a) That Yeap Seng Koon's father, Yeap Thean Lye, was a
British subject, having been born at Penang on May 5,
1840.
(b) That Yeap Seng Koon was born at Tamsui, Formosa, on
July 15, 1876.
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