EN
Enclosure
in Pekin No.
Of
1902.
508
Consul Eastes to Sir Beilby Alston.
Copy.
H. B. M. Consulato,
A MOY
October 26th, 1922.
No. 62.
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Sir:-
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It is a commonplace that Chinese citizens who, in virtue of the circumstance that their birth occurred some- where in His Majesty's dominions, are also British Subjects, if and who later on in life they take up residence 25 30 my of them do in the country of their ancestors, bocomo in the great majority of canes wholly indistinguishabla from ordinary Chinace, and claim their fortuitous British status simply and solely for the personal advantage which they conceive to be derivable therefrom.
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In 40 recent despatches, Nos. 36 of July 8th, and
43 of August 28th, I have ro-iterated the above facts,
pointing out that the registration as Britid: Subjects of
such persons does not in practice deter them from residing an owning landed property in the interior, while it con- stitutes a fruitful source of friction with the Chinese
Authoriting.
A particularly glaring instance of this nature has rocantly boon brought to my notice, au the result of a letter addressed to me by the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs at this port, copy and translation of which are submitted herewith (Enclosure 1.)
On receipt of this latter I sent for the British Subject Cheah Ngoh Oh and questioned him regarding the allegations contained in the letter from the Commissioner. Chenh Ngol: Oh,
who was born at Pong all but sixty years ago, is a nice-
Sir Beilby F. Alston, K.C.M.G., C.B.,
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His Majesty's Minister,
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