STRAITS SET TIZLIENTS
SECRET.
Copy to :-
Hong Kong. Peking.
My Lord,
GOVERNOR
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STRAITS
TLEMENTS
RECEIVED
13 OCT1330
King's House,
44
Kuala Lumpur.
12th September, 1930.
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Encl: No:(1).
Encl: No:(2).
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With reference to my secret despatch, dated the
25th March last, and to Your Lordship's reply, dated the
7th August last, on the subject of the protection of
British subjects of Chinese race in China, I have the
honour to invite your attention to my secret Federated
Malay States despatch of even date in which I have record-
ed a recommendation, made at a Jurbar held in Klang on the
11th instant, that His Majesty's Government should en-
deavour to obtain for British-born and British-protected
subjects of Chinese race in Malaya the same status and
privileges which it appears that the Dutch Government has
already secured for Dutch subjects of Chinese race.
2. I enclose a translation of the Netherland Sub-
jectship Act of the 10th February, 1910, as it reads after
its latest amendment of the 18th May, 1929. This act, I
am informed, is distinct from the Dutch Nationality Act of
1892. I also enclose a translation of a note, dated the
20th June, 1911, from the Chinese Foreign Office to the
Dutch Legation at Peking establishing a modus vivendi under
which any doubts which arise with regard to Netherlands
subjects of Chinese race are settled in accordance with the
The modus vivendi
laws of the Dutch colonial possessions.
The Right Honourable
The Lord Passfield of
Passfield Corner, P.C.,
is
Etc.,
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Colonial Office.