any further communication
subject, please quote
No. T 10070/3260/378.
got to any person by name,
Under-Secretary of State,"
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Foreign Office,
London, S.W.1.
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With reference to your letter (43878/1924) of the 6th
October last relative to the registration and protection in
China of British subjects of Chinese origin, I am directed
by Mr.Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you herewith
copies of a telegram and despatch which have been sent to
His Majesty's Minister at Peking, together with copies of
correspondence between the Marquess of Lansdowne and the
French Embassy in May, 1904, which is referred to in the
despatch to Sir R.Macleay.
2. Mr.Chamberlain considers it important that His
Majesty's Government should not withdraw their protection from
any of the classes of Anglo-Chinese to whom His Majesty's
Consular Officers in China at present endeavour to extend it,
until such time as an arrangement can be reached with the
Chinese Government; and in this connection I am to invite
Mr.Secretary Amery's attention to paragraphs 6 and 7 of the
despatch to Sir R.Macleay, which contains in this respect a
slight modification of the proposals in Foreign Office letter
(T 6817/3260/378) of the 13th September, in which your
department concurred in their letter under reply. The instruc-
tions contained in these paragraphs appear to Mr.Chamberlain
to be the best means of maintaining the present position of
His Majesty's Government until negotiations with the Chinese
Government
e Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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