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Sir,
C. O.
Red 23 JUN 32
Foreign Office
265
June 22th 1898
J22.
reply
to
your.
letter of
3/115.84
the 16th instant respecting the
nationality of a person of Chinese descent bom in Hong Kong, I am directed by the Marquis of-
Salisbury to request that you will state to Lord Knutsford.
that
any person born in Ster Majesty's Dominions is prima facies a British subject, but that the qualification should be added
"unless he has divested himself
British
of his nationality in the manners
provided by law." This, in the
Under Secretary of State.
Carl
Colonial Office
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