CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914 — Page 475

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(9382/14).

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Sir 7. H. May's suggestion, but Sir E. Grey is of the opinion

that, in the absence of urgent grounds for so doing, it

would be undesirable to deal, in an isolated manner, with this

fragment of the general problem of the status of Anglo-Chinese.

in China, and of the existing practice in regard to the pro-

tection of these persons, before the Anglo-Chinese Commission

which it is proposed to set up in Peking as soon as the

political situation in China allows of so doing, has had an

opportunity of examining this in conjunction with other out-

standing and allied questions.

Moreover Sir E. Grey is advised that for the following

reasons no such urgent grounds exist, for the proposed altera-

tions in the rules for Consular registration.

The persons whom Sir F. H. May may wish to deport are

Such persons

persons not having a british-born certificate.

are, on the one hand, not entitled to British protection in

China, if registered for the first time, subsequently to the

date of the Circular of 1904 which provides that such persons

are to be protected only if they have resided in Hongkong for

three

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