CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925 — Page 329

No, 30

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FOREIGN OFFICE, 5.V.1.

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15th January, 1928.

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With reference to my telegram No.6 of the 14th

January, I have to inform you that your despatch to my

predecessor Ke,370 of the 18th June last regarding the

registration and protection in Chins of British subjects of

Chinese origin, has received careful consideration in

consultation with the Colonial Office.

In view of the considerations advanced in that

deccatch you are new authorised to negotiate a genera)

settlement of this question with the Chinese Goverment en the lines of the agreement between the Netherlands Government

and the Chinese Government summarised in a note from the

Vai Tu Pu to the Netherlands Legation at Paking, dated June Both, 1911, of which a copy was unclosed in Bir Beilby Alston's

despatch Bs.374 of June 27th, 1922.

3. I am well aware that the difficulties of the

situation at Peking may make it impossible for you to open

auch negotiations at the present moment; and I therefore

leave it entirely to your discretion when and in what manner

the negotiations should be begun, At the same time it is svidently important that you should take the first convenient opportunity to come to a definite arrangement with the Chimane, Goverment as to the solution of the difficulties which from

time to time arise in connection with this question of

nationality.

4.

As a basis of negotiations you might in the first place claim the right to register and protect in Chins kritish

subjects of Chinese origin

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