CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 122

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K. B. K. Consulate,

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2 Enslesures,

28th August 1922,

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Tessien Offica

of 20 oct. 1911

40. 1911

In your despatch Ne. 28 (6758/22) of August 10th you instructed me not to register as British subjects the children born in China of British subjects of

Chinese race.

In previous years however the births of several of such children have been registered in this Cenaulata occasionally with the special permission of His Maj- eaty's Secretary of State, obtained owing to the lapra of over seven years between the birth and the regis-

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I have the honour to enclose Correspondence,

marked in the margin, relative to one of these persons,

Fan Lu-tek, whene widowed mother has now raised the

question of her son's status.

The recognition of persons such as this youth as British subjecta is, needless to say, open to many obvious objections, not the least of which is the ixaquii inequity, vis à vis the Chinese Authorities, of with - drawing from their jurisdiction a person of pure Chin- ese rate, sympathies, habits and instincts, whose at tachment to the British empire is based solely on a alender` legal technicality, and those British status

sedulously concealed is, in the vast majority of cases,

exc ept

Beilby Alaton K.0.M.G.‚¤.B..

Bis Majesty's minister,

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