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FOREIGN OFFICE.
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Sir:-
19th July, 1923.
With reference to your letter No. 17402/1923 of
16th May last, and to previous correspondence relative to
the status in China of British subjects of Chinese race,
I am directed by the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston to
transmit to you, herewith, to be laid before the Duke of
Devonshire, a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's
Minister at Peking enclosing a copy of a despatch from His
Majesty's Consul at Kiungchow who requests instructions
regarding the registration of (1) the wives and widows,
and (2) the children born in Chine, of British subjects
of Chinese race in his consular district.
2.
Lord Curzon would propose, subject to His Grace's
concurrence, to inform Sir R. Macleay that, pending a
satisfactory agreement on the whole question with the
Chinese Government, His Majesty's Consular Officers in
China should be instructed to adhere as a general rule to
the principles laid down in Lord Curzon's despatch to
Peking No. 30 of January 10th last (a copy of which was enclosed in my letter T 12848/593/310 of April 6th last),
which, as he is correct in assuming, preclude the independent registration on separate cards of native wives and widows who do not fulfil the conditions laid down in Major's compendium, and also the registration and protection as British subjects of the children born in China of British
subjects
Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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