CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924 — Page 307

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gir,

H.B.M. Consulate,

304

Swatow.

27th February,

1924.

I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letters

of the 24th, 25th, and 27th instants.

It is much to be regretted that, through your having

been registered in this consulate previously as a British subject, when you were not entitled to be registered as such, you have been placed in your present difficult position.

I doing my best to persuade the Commissioner for Foreign Affaire that, holding former Registration Certificates as you did, there could be no question of your deceiving the Chinese Authorities as to your nationality, which you naturally

The Commissioner, however,

and honestly believed to be British.

has so far refused to regard the matter in a fair and just

manner.

"

In your letter of the 27th instant you say: - you noticed the Chinese Government first and put me in such

troubles...”

This is not correct.

Foreign Affairs wrote to me

The commissioner for

in the first place asking whether I had to reply that you were not you were a British subject. entitled to be registered in this Consulate as a British subject,

TAB You also say: - and that I did not recognise you as one.

This, also, the troubles are entirely arisen from your part...”

is scarcely the correct way of putting it.

With regard to the arrest of your employee, I do not

Even if I knew, I cannot see on know why he has been arrested. what grounds I should be justified in protecting him from his ow

officials.

With regard to your inquiry about a passport in order

to

Yeap Song Koon,

Swatow.