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Wai Chiao Pu to His Majesty's Minister.
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May 16th, 1913.
The Wai Chiao Pu has the honour, to acknowledge receipt
of Sir John Jordan's letter of March 2nd to the effect that
he had been instructed by His Majesty's Principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs to inform the Chinese Govern-
ment that His Majesty's Government entertained strong
objections to the policy of the regulations issued for the
election of representatives to the National Assembly by
Chinese resident in British colonies.
The Ministry forwarded the above communication to the
Bureau for the Organisation of Parliament, and has now
received the following reply from the latter:-
"The reason for the election (of representatives) of
Chinese resident abroad is to be found in the repeated
demands owing to their affection for the mother country of
citizens of the Chinese Republic who have settled in various
parts of the world for this right, for which they applied
to the Government and the (provincial). Assemblies. Hence
the
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