CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 165

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BRITISH LEGATION,

PEKING.

May 11th. 1915.

161

malar No. 26 tober 24th

1914.

Sir,

In reply to Your Excellency's despatch No.5883/

12, I have the honour to inform you that no instruct-

ions have been issued to His Majesty's Consuls on

the subject of the registration and protection of

British subjects of Chinese descent since 1904,

except that on receipt, through the Foreign Office

of a copy of your despatch of July 29th last to the

Colonial Office, I instructed all Consular Officers

in China to furnish you with monthly lists of all

persons from Hongkong registered as British subjects.

Copy of this despatch is enclosed herewith.

I have &c.,

(Signed) J.N.Jordan.

The Governor of Hongkong.