CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 227

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Sir:-

SWATOW,

October 8th, 1914.

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I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your

despatch No. 6 of the 24th ultimo with reference to Chinese

born in Hongkong of parents who are subjects of China.

No person of Chinese extraction is registered at this

Consulate unless he produces a Certificate of Eritish

Nationality from a Colonial Government or a Passport from

His Majesty's Consular authorities in Siam. The only case

in the last few years of a person of Chinese descent being

registered on the authority of a certificate of birth

only is Joseph Ahwane, the illegitimate son of a lauri-

tian woman and a Chinese man, who was registered here as

a British protected person in 1911 and 1912 on the sole

authority of a l'auritius certificate of birth. Since 1912

he has not appeared at this Consulate to rene" his regis-

tration and his birth certificate is on file in this office.

The practice I observe with regard to the registration

of all British subjects of Chinese origin is that they

ir John Jordan, G.C.I.E., K.C.B., K.C...G.,

must

&C.,

&C.,

PEKING.

&c.,