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soupel her to abandon her thoios and slayt jus poll, on which

the Municipal Lær of Treat Britain and the United Nates is

based. If such competence be denied, dritish subjects of hi-

nese deshent are possessed of double nationality and it woul4

appear to follow that we gumot claim thm ngainst China in

hina. ( Vide Oppenheim, International Law, 3rd Edition, Volume

I, paragraph 310 ).

15. I may add in conclusion that it has not esonped

the notice of the Tnstitutional levernment that there is at

the moment being emoted in the Imperial Parliment legislation

having for its object a modification of the existing lær, and

the incorporation therwin ɔf the principles underlying jus sangui-

nis, and in the course of disoussins, which I have had with them,

this has been pointed out as an argument in favour of their olain

to jurisdiction over hitish subjects of Chinese descent in hire.

It is well known that Jayan has asserted her rights based on dua

zanguinia over American citizens of Japanese descent,

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Your most obellens,

fxmble servant,

Donmil General,

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