STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
SECRET.
GOV
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STRAITS
SET
TLEMENTS
KING'S HOUSE,
KUALA LUMPUR.
RECEIVED/
10 AUG 1931
VOCL. OFFICE
JULY, 193
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My Lord,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of Your Lordship's Secret Despatch of the 9th April,
1951, on the subject of the establishment of a Chinese
Consulate at Kuala Lumpur.
Paragraphs 3 and 4 of that despatch contain a statement
of the policy of His Majesty's Government as regards
the question of the status of British born subjects
and British protected persons of Chinese race and I
now desire to place on record the complete agreement
of the Malayan Governments with the policy laid down
and to emphasize my sincere hope that every possible
effort will be made at an early date to secure the
acquiescence of the Chinese National Government.
Briefly this policy is as follows:-
B.
A.
that the Chinese Government should apply
to British Protected Persons of Chinese race any agreement which may be reached with regard to British subjects of Chinese race;
that British subjects of Chinese race who
visit China and whose names are registered at a British Consulate in China and have been communicated to the Chinese authori- ties will be afforded protection for a period of six months but that such persons will be afforded no further protection and no claim will be made to protect them as British subjects after the expiration of that period unless in the meantime they have secured from the Chinese authorities a certificate of denationalization under the Chinese Law of Nationality;
The Right Honourable
The Lord Passfield of
Passfield Corner, P.C.,
etc., etc.,
COLONIAL
etc. OFFICE.
C.
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