CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 341

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guarantood te them many yours ago in retur fer their help conquering In de China sa auxiliaries of the Franch.

The Immigration laws may thus be said to be applied to Chinoso, Malays, Si wsoso, Indivɛs &e, ko, amongst these rac of there are of course a great number of British Nationality though of Asistio origin. The rogulations wore without doubt framed to control the Chinese Co eli e clzs8.

Mr. Lau is therefore perfectly correct in his statement that Japulose subjects are scoorded infinitely batter trast- ngut the British Subjects of asiatic origin,

In my opinion a great deal of the trouble arises from the impossibility of making any Franch official understand that a Pritish bom China has exactly the same rights "comme sujot wiglais" as a mui bom in Angland, No wowit of exolwation can over drive this principle into their heads, . Thoy themsolves are accustomed to their "eitoyens",,"sujate" and "amtégés" - each class enjoying wurying rights wid beka subject to different legislation 0.g. Di ananita born in Cochin -China is only a "sujet" and has to go through may devious procesags of adoption, naturalisation &e before ko emerges as a naturalised citoyen".

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"xperience has convinced me that in order to obtain the samo troutmeit for British-born Chinese 8 for Japmisso, the mattor will need to be taken up in Paris and special stress will have to be laid on the fact that a China bom and aðuɑuted in Hongkong is no less a British subject thai I MAH bem in Great Britain.

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The legislation, er auch of it has been shown to me, dose not mention the oxemption of Japanese and Philippines, Thus bettor treatment of the Chinese British Subjects would appear not to require fresh logislation but only a change in nractice,

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