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2.

GOV.

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25/2

In future it is proposed to grant full passports for the United Kingdom to Chinese of the business and professional classes who can prove Hong Kong birth

GOV.

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2.3. 33.

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Suggests that if Dr. Pau requires further facilities a full passport should be granted. with the usual notification regarding dual nationality.

Nol.

The original reasons upon which was based

the practice of issuing travel certificates rather

than regular passports to Hong Kong Chinese (even

when there was clear proof of British birth)

are set out in Sir R. E. Stubbs' despatch, No. 18

of 14. 1. 25mm 8243/25 - flagged green

In 1931 in (2) and (5) on 82797/31, the

Home Office and Foreign Office expressed the

hope that the existing system of issuing travel

certificates instead of passports might be

continued.

The Home Office view was based on

the undesirability of facilitating the entry of

British subjects of Chinese race into this

country to engage in employment. The F.0.view

was based on the desirability of restricting

the

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