(F 264/239/10)
RECEIVED
24FEB 1931
OOL. OFFICE
FOREIGN OFFICE S.W.1.
21st February, 1931.
105
Dear Ellis
72740/30 (24) 7274020 (25)
In reply to your letter No. 72770/30 of February 5th,
no answer was returned to your letter of January 10th because
we believed that the question had been satisfactorily
disposed of at the meeting on the 15th January. It
certainly seems desirable however that there should be some
record of the decisions arrived at.
My understanding is that the Colonial and Foreign Office
representatives and Sir C. Clementi agreed at the meeting
that it would be a mistake to require Chinese Consuls, as a
condition precedent to our consenting to their appointment,
to give an undertaking that they will refrain from doing
something which they have no right to do, namely, afford
protection to British subjects or British protected persons
of Chinese race; but that if any Chinese Consul in Malaya
should thus attempt to exercise jurisdiction over persons
W.D. Ellis Esq., C.M.G.
possessing..
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