CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 168

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE

HONGKONG.

June 17th, 1915.

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sir,

With reference to my Confidential Despatch of the

26th ultimo, I have the honour to inform you that this

Government was recently prevented from deporting an

undesirable Chinese born in Hongkong of Chinese parents,

to whom it would under no circumstances have granted a

certificate of British Nationality, known locally as a

British-born subject Certificate, by the fact that at

the end of last year this person on the production of

a birth certificate only had been registered in the

British Consulate-General at Canton. I venture there-

fare to suggest that the issue of instructions in the

sense of the letter from the Foreign Office referred to

in my letter of the 26th ultimo and which has now no

doubt reached you would assist this Government.

I have &c.

(Signed) F.H.May.

Governor etc.,

His Majesty's Minister,