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as heretofore, the Chinese authorities
would abstain from claiming as Chinese
citizens, certain classes of British
subjects of Chinese race when in China,
and would admit our right to treat them as
British.
4. For such a working arrangement
the modus vivendi arranged with the Chinese
by the Netherlands Government affords a
useful precedent. For particulars of the
Dutch arrangement I would refer to my In Chinchill's
predecesser's Confidential despatch of the
6th September 1922. The gist of the arrange-
ment is that lists of Dutch subjects of
Chinese origin (iver, persons of Chinese
origin born in the Netherlands Best Indies
of parents settled there) registered at Dutch
Consulates in China, are regularly furnished
by the Dutch Consuls to the local Chinese
authorities, who are thereby presumed to
recognise the foreign nationality of the
individuals in question. It is understood
that this arrangement has, on the whole,
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which in their case includes Dutch subjects of the first gensation,
worked