CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 465

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Any further communication on the subject of this latter should be addressed

to

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,

HOME OFFICE,

LONDON, 8.W.,

and the following number quoted

201,178/3.

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C.O

15760

RECO HOMR-OFGIOMAY 13

WHITEHALL.

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sir.

8th May, 1913.

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With reference to your letter of the 21st February (5616)

enclosing the petitions of E.5. and Ellis Kadoorie for the

grant of Letters of Denization, I am directed by Mr. Secretary

McKenna to say, for the information of Mr. Secretary Harcourt,

that he has, in omsultation with Sir Edward Grey, carefully

considered the petitions, but that he regrets that neither

case is one in which he can see his way to recommand the grant

of Letters of Denization.

Mr. McKenna thinks that the Messrs. Kadoorie must be left

to such opportunity as they may possess of obtaining British

nationality in the Colony of Hongkong under the Hmgkong

Naturalisation Ordinance of December 9th, 1902.

I am to add that it is stated in the Foreign Office letter

in the case that Sir Edward Grey was somewhat surprised to find

from the Petitions that Turkish subjects who describe themselves

as 'financiers' had been made Justices of the Peace for the

Colony of Hongkong.

he Under Secretary of State,

* Colonial Office.

I am,

sir,

Your obedient Servant,

عينا

DP Byrne.

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