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Felanson of Chinese British subjects to which he considera

we should confine registration and protection, as stated in

y deppatch No. 374, I concur in the general principle on

which they are based, namely thint the person to be protected

shall be a British subject of the second generation, born on

ritish territor of British parents. In view of the change

in conditions in China from those existing before the evolu-

tion of 1911, and of the desirability of avoiding undwe

publicity (which invariably leads to popular opposition to any

vind of negotiations nowadays), I inclined to the opinion

that once His Majesty La Government have decided on the extent

of the Coness-ions we may be prepared to make, it would be

preferable that this Legation should be entrusted with the negŋ-

tiations with the Chinese Govemment, rather th a that delegates

from the Colonial Coremment" concemed should neet a

Chinese

Delegation in formal Conference here an originally suggested.

7.

To revert to sir t. Ouillemard's despatch of April

14th last there is one paint in His Excellency's despatch on

which I am not clear. He apponra to take it for granted that

Chinese born in the Federated male states are protected in

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China as

*British Protected "ubjecta". The standing instru C-

tions of the Foreign office, however, A conveyed in the

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