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passport. The important in point is that the Governor- -General makes no distinction between Un Kam Wa and Yu To

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15. One more case is mentioned in the same file that Ho Pak Ki. Ho Pak Ki is undoubtedly in Class 2.

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16. Finally Sir John Jordan gives his opinion that the Circular of 1904 was too widely drawn and that it was a mistake to extend British protection in China to persons in class 3, even provided they had resided continuously for three years in a British Colony, and he wishes to eliminate Class 3 altogether. The Foreign Office however did not actively support Sir John Jordan, but contented themselves with asking if the Colonial Office concurred.

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As far as the Hongkong Government is concerned the questions involved are questions of policy and not of law. The interpretation of the law may be safely left to the Foreign Office in consultation with their legal advisers. The Hongkong Government has to weigh in the balance the ad-

-ventage to be derived from protecting Chinese born in

Hongkong, against the prospect of irritating the Provincial

Authorities at Canton and the Consul-General at that port,

by insisting on claims which tuey regard as unreasonable.

18. To protect or assist Chinese inhabitants of Hong-

-kong will always be a popular policy, nor is it in the least

likely that such action will be regarded as unreasonable by

the Chinese Government, which has never raised and probably

will never raise, objections to a claim to protect individu- -als in Class 3. But although the objections of His Majestys Minister and Consuls may be a much exaggerated (or may even appear unfounded) something must be done to meet views so strongly held. The first thing is for the Governor so to exercise his discretion as to confine the issue of these certificates to deserving Chinese merchants domiciled in Hongkong. The Foreign Office thought the animus manendi was the essential point to be established, and it would be