In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No. 10549/2266/378.
and address--
not to any person by name,
but to
"The Under-Secretary of State,"
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.1.
sir,
CO 50230
IRES:
REL
FOREIGN OFFICE.
3.N.1.
110
7th November, 1925.
(44043/25)
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to refer to your letter (44043/25) of the 14th ultimo respecting the
25 registration and protection of British subjects of Chinese
race by His Majesty's Consular officers in China.
2.
Subject to the concurrence of Mr. Secretary Amery,
Mr. Chamberlain proposes to send to His Majesty's Minister at Peking copies of the correspondence with your department which
has taken place since the receipt of the telegram from Hia Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, No. 100 of the 27th
May, and Mr. Palairet'a despatch No. 278 of the 25th April
(copies of which were sent to the Colonial Office in Foreign Office letters of the 4th June and the 7th July last), for
the information and guidance of His Majesty's Legation, with
an intimation that His Majesty's Minister is himself the best
Judge of the proper time at which to raise the question again
with the Chinese Government on the lines recommended by Mr.
Amery. Meanwhile it is not likely that the Chinese Government
will raise the matter while the present Tariff Conference is
sitting at Peking, or that Sir R. Macleay will think it
desirable to do so.
3. I am therefore to invite Mr. Amery's concurrence in
authority being given to Sir Ronald Macleay to raise the matter
again with the Chinese Goverment at the appropriate time,
should he consider this course desirable.
de Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
I am •
sir,
Your obedient Servant,