CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924 — Page 350

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complicated one owing to the spesial privileges mjoyed ly

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foreigners in an exterritorialised county like China and to

the fact that the Chinese nationality law was based on Jus

sanguinis, and that under our existing procedure British sub-

jeute of Chinese origin born outside British territoy were not

generally washing entitled to British protection in China (nee

Foreign Office dematch Wo, 793 of notaber 6th 1923).

my demonton to

*wntow having been forwarded und er

Plying est through the Crown Advocate for his observations ·

r vilkinson advised that Yêéap van a British subject in accor-

• with the British nation:lity and status of Alien' = Act

1914 - 22m that no question of double nationality was involved,

and that the Chinese autaorities should be notified of Yeap'ı

British nationality, This view a peared to disregard the wain

difficulty, namely, the Chinese nationality law, based on jus

#anguinis, under which Yeap was claimed by the Chinese authori-

ties as a Chinese subject, and to ignore the fact that our

existing procedure (that laid down in the Compendium) is based

not

so much on any legal or Treaty foundations but rather on

g rounde of expediency and political considerations, and also

the fact that under this procedure an individual mo might be

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