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I can find nothing Office want us to tell them. in the Ordinance which purports to cast a duty upon the Consul to give a certificate and even if there was any such provision it would not be effective since Consuls in foreign countries are not within the jurisdiction of the Hong Kong Legislature. The question whether the Consul
can or cannot refuse a certificate seems to me to be one of consular propriety and not of law at all
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In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No. F 5503/194/10.
and address-
not to any person by name,
but to-
"The Under-Secretary of Stato,"
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.1.
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164332, FOREIGN OFFICE, 14
945
2nd December,1925.
"ith reference to your letter No. 49387/25 of the
13th último on the subject of a Chinese attempt to destroy the maritime commerce of Hongkong, and to my letter
F 5391/194/10 of the 19th ultimo, I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to transmit to you herewith, for
the information of Mr. Secretary Amery copy of a letter
addressed to the Board of Trade, together with two despatches just received from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, in which Mr. Palairet raises the question as to the position
of British Consular Officers in dealing with applications
for certificates of emigration. As explained in paragraph
3 of the Foreign Office letter to the Board of Trade, gir
Austen Chamberlain finds it difficult to deal with this
question before knowing the views of the Colonial Office
and the Board of Trade, and he would therefore be glad to
be furnished with Mr. Amery's observations on the question.
Sir Austen Chamberlain proposes to postpone dealing
with the point raised in your letter under reply until he
has received the observations of the Board of Trade,
2.
Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
I am,
sir,
Your obedient servant,
Muathlow