CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926 — Page 4

In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. T 2245/81/378.

and address-

not to any person by name,

but to-

"The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

C. 5073

3

MAR 1926

FOREIGN OFFICE.

S..1.

2nd March, 1926.

3

Sir,

I

am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain

to transmit to you herewith copies of correspondence with

His Majesty's Consul-General at Yunnanfu respecting the

validity after marriage of a passport issued to an unmarried

WOMAN.

You will observe that it is stated in the ante-

penultimate paragraph that information was given to an applicant by the Colonial Secretary's Office at Hongkong to the effect that the old passport could still be used provided

that the holder added a specimen of her married signature.

3.

The correct requirements in such cases are set forth

in the reply which has been returned to Mr. Tours, and I am

to request that, unless Mr. Secretary Amery sees any

objection to such a course, they may be brought to the

notice of the Colonial Secretary at Hongkong.

I Bill,

sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Law.

1e Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.