BRITISH TEGATION PEKING.
94
No. 2/38.
Copies to:-
Hong Kong,
ghanghai,
7.0. Canton.
From Shanghai No.42 5th. March 1928
To Shanghai No.40 19th, March 1928
sir,
19th. Karch 1928
I have the honour to transmit here-
with copies of correspondence exchanged with
His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai re-
garding the possibility of reaching a local
settlement of the question of the Chinese
Nationality Law and its applicability to
British subjects of Chinese descent.
2.
I regard it as eminently desirable
that a anlution should be sought on the lines
indicated by Sir Sidney Barton and I propose
to authorise him to act accordingly sub.ect
to your concurrence which I have the hopLour
to requst may be communicated to we by fole-
graph as soon as possible.
3.
A similar despatch is being st
to His Excellency the Govarnor of Hol
I have the honour to be
81x,
Your Excellency's obedik
(Signed)
B.0. HAMTON.
(In the absence of
His Excellency,
Sir Hugh Clifford, G.C.MIG., G. 33. Mi i
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of
Bettlements and their Dependenc.
SINGAPORS.