30082
In any further communication on this subject, please quote
No.
T 9297/2333/378
and address---
not to any person by name,
but to-
"
'The Under-Secretary of State,” Foreign Office,
London, S.W.1.
RECEIVED
113 AUG 1927
OOL, OFFICE
16 20
FOREIGN OFFICE. S.W.1.
11th August, 1927.
Sir,
A
I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to refer to your letter of the 22nd February last (30082/1927)
relative to enquiries made by the French Consul in Hong Kong
concerning the legal status of British subjects of Chinese
race.
2.
These enquiries relate for the most part to the
national status of such persons within the colony, and as no
actual difference exists in this respect between them and other
British subjects, it would seem that the enquiries made by the
French Consul might be sufficiently answered more briefly
than appears in the enclosure in your letter. Sir Austen
Chamberlain however sees no objection to the proposed replies,
but he considers that as regards Nos. 3(b), 4 and 6, they
would be clearer to the French Consul if it were explained
that a person imperially naturalised in Hong Kong possesses
all the rights and privileges derived from his status as such
throughout the Empire, except in these Dominions which have not
adopted Part II of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens
Act, 1914.]
3. With regard to the views expressed in the Home Office
letter to your department of the 28th ultimo (506271), Sir
Austen Chamberlain concurs in suggestions (1) and (ii) of
paragraph 2 of that letter but is indisposed to agree to (iii),
inasmuch as the position in China of persons of dual nationality
British and Chinese, under present conditions in that country,
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
is/
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