CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 222

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currence in the opinion that no urgent grounds exist for the

alterations which Sir F.H. May had proposed in the rules for

Consular registration. I consider, however, that the sugges-

ted Commission for dealing with the general problem of the sta-

tus of Anglo-Chinese in China is not likely to materialise

within a measurable distance of time and that even if it does

meet eventually it is improbable that any solution of the

question will be reached unless we are prepared to make con-

siderable concessions to Chinese views on the subject.

There remains one other point to which I wish to

draw your attention; the letter of the 7th of May from the

Foreign Office to the Colonial Office (copy enclosed in your

despatch No. 155 of Lay 20th) which was based on the Minutes

forwarded in your confidential despatch under acknowledgment

contains the following statement: "It seems that it is in

the discretion of His Majesty's Government to withhold protec-

tion in a case where it is undesirable for any reason to afford

it to any British subject and that instructions might, if

necessary, properly be given to His Majesty's Consular Officers

to withhold such protection in the case of persons deported as

undesirable from british territory". It appears to me desir-

able