Gopy.
(T 2673/2673/317)
Excellency:-
Jet
THE CHINESE MERCHANTS BANK, LIMITED 1
36, Rue Chaignesu,
Saigon.
5th February, 1923.
108.
I beg to take the liberty of drawing Your Excellency':
attention to the following distressing facts:
Though I am a British subject, born in the British
colony of Hong Kong, and the bearer of a British passport duly vised and counter-vised by the French consul et Hong Kong authorising me to travel in Indo-China, I was disagreeably
surprised on arriving at Saigon, to find that the French
authorities, absolutely refused to recognise me as a British
subject, and treated me as a Chinese subject, these lest are
subjected on their arrival in this colony to very ignominious treatment which is an insult to any man's dignity, they are also
subjected to a different fiscal regime.
My passport was withdrawn, and the French officials
gave me papers declaring my Chinese nationality in exchange.
This was done to me In spite of the fact that I am the chief
manager of the Chinese Merchants Brink, Limited, of Hong Kong,
as well as the managing director of Nam Loong Rice Firm which is
the biggest and most infl uential business house in Cholon, Indo-
Further I suffer from the inequality of a special system
of laws by which I am obliged to pay the license taxes of my
business concerns two to three times more than the other
Europeans in exactly the same class of business. Such prejudice
China.
against British subjects undoubtedly handicaps the development
of
His Excellency,
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs,
London,
Great Britain.
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