Sir,
COPY.
British Consulate-General
for Nanking
(at Shanghai }
18th July, 1927.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your despatch of June 29th last enclosing copy of a
despatch and its enclosures which you have addressed to
His Majesty's Minister at Peking regarding a case of
extortion by Chinese officials from one Low Peng Kiah,
a British subject of Chinese descent.
In accordance with your request I took an opportun-
ity during a recent interview with Dr. C.C. Wu, Minister for
Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government, to bring
this case to his notice and I made strong representations
to him along the lines of the correspondence between you
and the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs at Swetow.
Dr. C.C. Wu had not yet received any report on the
case from Swatow, but he said that, quite irrespective
of the facts of the case, he must declare that in instances
like this of dual nationality the Nationalist Government
were not prepared to recognise the claim to foreign
nationality since they intended to be guided by the
"jus sanguinis". He added that not long ago he had had
a similar case at Canton in which he had adopted the same
attitude. However he promised to study the copies of the
Chinese correspondence, which I left with him, and to let
me know his final decision in due course
He also pointed out that cases like this were more
frequent with the Japanese especially in regard to the
C.C.A. Kirke Esq., C.B.E.,
H.M. Consul,
Swatow.
/Formosans