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fully entitled to British nationality under the Ast above re-

ferred to might yet not be entitled to registration and prot es-

tion in Chins, being in fact a sermon af double nationality, mr,

cording to British and Chinese law, Yaop would appear to be.

6.

On April 11th I received the report called for fro M

Tia "ajesty '« Con«ul af sentow from which it appeared that Fr

¿King had withdraw Brit inn protection from Yeap undây the

inst ruotione issued to Consuls in scordance with Foreign

Office despatch Xa. 30 of Janusy 10th 1923, to adhere to the

existing practice am laid down in the compendium, under which

[Year was at a matter of feet clearly debarred from registra-

jtian and protection ** * Sritish mbject in Chins (See ́àløber

Foreign Offiö e despatën No. 793 of october 6th 1923 ruling

that the children born in China of British subjects of Chinese

rece are not to be registered as British subjects in China),

and further that vend was a person of most indifferent reputa-

tion los ally.

Mr King'a dempatch having been forwarded to me

ander Flying Real through the Grown Advocate, Kr Wilkinson

*onfirmed the advice previously famished by him that Yeap

Should be revognised as a British subject. It was of course

/apparent