Enclosure No.l. in Shanghai despatch No.42 to Peking dated 5th March 1928.
Copy of letter from Commissioner for Foreign Affairs dated 31st December 1927.
December 31st, 1927.
Received January 5th, 1928.
Sir,
I have received the following communication
from the Shanghai Provisional Court:-
In the Civil and Criminal cases which
come before this Court it sometimes happens
that there is a dispute over the question
of the nationality of one of the parties.
The dispute usually arises when one of the
parties, whose father was a Chinese national,
was himself born in a foreign territory of
has resided in a foreign territory for a
specified period and then returned to China
and without authorisation registered himself
in some foreign Consulate thereby acquiring
double nationality. When he becomes in-
volved in litigation he puts up the defence
that he is not a Chinese citizen.
Recent examples are those of Hsieh Hui- yuan (registered as an American citizen),
Chen Chun-chi, Teng Chih-yang, Cheng Wei-
sung, Hsi Ching-kao and Yeh Lai Hsien (all
registered as Portuguese citizens), and on
account of this dispute these cases have
long been hanging fire and cannot be settled.
According
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