CO129-501-3 Chinese situation- Protection of British subjects of Chinese race 23-10-1926 - 21-12-1927 — Page 126

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as heretofore, the Chinese authorities

would abstain from claiming as Chinese

citizens, certain classes of British

subjects of Chinese race when in China,

and would admit our right to treat them as

British.

4. For such a working arrangement

the modus vivendi arranged with the Chinese

by the Netherlands Government affords a

useful precedent. For particulars of the

Dutch arrangement I would refer to my In Chinchill's

predecesser's Confidential despatch of the

6th September 1922. The gist of the arrange-

ment is that lists of Dutch subjects of

Chinese origin (iver, persons of Chinese

origin born in the Netherlands Best Indies

of parents settled there) registered at Dutch

Consulates in China, are regularly furnished

by the Dutch Consuls to the local Chinese

authorities, who are thereby presumed to

recognise the foreign nationality of the

individuals in question. It is understood

that this arrangement has, on the whole,

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which in their case includes Dutch subjects of the first gensation,

worked