CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 129

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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save been expressed by the Colonial Govemars,

the Legal

Advisers to the Foreign office mu His Majesty 'a Represen-

'as in China, which vary according to the angle from

Which it is viewad.

4.

The Colonial authorities naturally desire to

of protection naani ble for their

ercure the prestent amoun

protegen; the Engal Advisers ara perhap" inclined to take 2.

[curely legal and theoretical view of the matter, whilst třím

syntion and Mir Paja«ty ** Con¬ule in Chine hava vividly ben

fore

them the difficulties and acrimonious disputes that ari se

when their aid in invoked by British subjects who are indie-

tin. uishable from the local population, and who behave in all

eatteri an natives of the country until they get into trouble

with the Chinese Authorities, when they produce their priti h

registration certificatam.

5. This tendang of the Colonial Chiname was frankly

jadmitted by tir 7. Tugard, the then Governor of Hangkang, in

the following parafrash which ↑ quote from his despatch to

the Colonial Mifice of october 16th, 1911:-

"The vast majority of the Chinone of this i

Lolong,

whatever may be their legal nationality, mra in close touch

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