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H.B.M. CONSULATE-GENERAL

SAIGON, COCHIN-CHINA.

March 7th 1923.

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your acmmunication No.11 in 11/1923 deted the 28th February last, forwarding copy of a letter addressed to His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong by Mr. K.C.Leu regarding the treatment of Chinese arriving in Cochin-Chine,

The question involved in this matter is one of race and not nationality. Every person who arrives at Saigon is obliged to present himself before the proper authorities in order that certain formalities may be completed, with this difference, however, that Europeens are dealt with by the Service de la Sûreté (Police), and Asiatics (irrespective of nationality) by the Service de l'Immigration. The regila- tions governing immigration into the Colony are precise on this point, and the authorities mke no exception, nor do they transfer intothe "European" class an Asistio of good social standing merely because he has been educated on Euro- pean lines. Then, therefore, Mr. Lau save in his letter that the French authorities refused to recognise him as a British subject and treated him as a Chinese subject, that he means is that they refused to recognise him as European and ap- plied to to him the regulations to which are mbject all laia- tios without distinction of nationality or social standing.

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