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double nationality to be treated as Dutch, subject to registration and communication of list of registered persons to Chinese authorities. Such an arrangement would be acceptable to us, since it would seem impossible to decline to communicate
lists of persons so registered to Chinese, but we
do not know to what classes of persons Dutch
arrangement has in practice been applied, and it seems probable that the South, if not Koo, would
endeavour to limit our arrangement to certain
classes of Anglo-Chinese. If so, it will be
necessary to consider what concessions we can
make, but in the first instance you should try for
an arrangement as wide as the Dutch. Governor of
Hongkong is being informed of position and instructed.
to communicate his observations to you direct, and
you should keep in touch with him in addition to
informing me of any proposals Chinese may make.
With regard to persons of Indian descent in
Turkestan the arrangement recently made between
His Majesty's Consul-General at Kashgar and the
Taoyin should suffice to eliminate all causes of
friction and to demonstrate our desire to meet
the Chinese in a friendly spirit (see Legation
despatch No. 796 of November 3rd, 1926).
3.
Shipping and navigation laws. Sir
Skinner Turner is being consulted on the point
raised