CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 51

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that their attitude and actions are such as to render

intolerable the position of British subjects on the

Concession.

The views held by Mr. Consul-General Jamieson

as to the status of the British Concession on Shame en

are recorded in the despatch of August 15th 1914,

from the Governor of Hongkong to the Secretary of State

for the Colonies, copy of which was enclosed in Mr.

Jamieson's despatch No. 33 of August 18th. In the se

views you concurred and any comment on my part is

therefore unnecessary. I enclose herewith, for

purposes of reference, copy of the original English

version of the lease of the Concession.

Nor do I propose to offer any observations on

the argument that foreigners resident in China do

not acquire a new domicile · In the first place it

is a point on which, I understand, eminent legal

authorities are divided in their views, and secondly

it is, in my opinion, a question hardly relevant to

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