No, 30
(1 10070/3280/378)
$17,
34057
FOREIGN OFFICE, 5.V.1.
B
15th January, 1928.
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With reference to my telegram No.6 of the 14th
January, I have to inform you that your despatch to my
predecessor Ke,370 of the 18th June last regarding the
registration and protection in Chins of British subjects of
Chinese origin, has received careful consideration in
consultation with the Colonial Office.
In view of the considerations advanced in that
deccatch you are new authorised to negotiate a genera)
settlement of this question with the Chinese Goverment en the lines of the agreement between the Netherlands Government
and the Chinese Government summarised in a note from the
Vai Tu Pu to the Netherlands Legation at Paking, dated June Both, 1911, of which a copy was unclosed in Bir Beilby Alston's
despatch Bs.374 of June 27th, 1922.
3. I am well aware that the difficulties of the
situation at Peking may make it impossible for you to open
auch negotiations at the present moment; and I therefore
leave it entirely to your discretion when and in what manner
the negotiations should be begun, At the same time it is svidently important that you should take the first convenient opportunity to come to a definite arrangement with the Chimane, Goverment as to the solution of the difficulties which from
time to time arise in connection with this question of
nationality.
4.
As a basis of negotiations you might in the first place claim the right to register and protect in Chins kritish
subjects of Chinese origin
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