CO129-501-3 Chinese situation- Protection of British subjects of Chinese race 23-10-1926 - 21-12-1927 — Page 35

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Conies to:

Canton No.353

Peking No. 8.

Wei-hai-wei.

Singapore.

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1st October, 1927.

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As requested in your confidential telegram

of the 29th September I have the honour to reply by despatch to your confidential despatch of the 26th

Lay on the subject of negotiating an arrangement for

the protection of British subjects of Chinese race,

when in China.

2. The matter, which is of very great importance

to Hong Kong, has received prolonged and anxious

consideration from myself and my principal advisers

and I enclose a copy of a memorandum on the status

of British subjects of Chinese race, dated the 23rd

September, and prepared jointly by Sir Shouson Chow

and Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., the two Chinese

members of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. I also

refer you to pages 6 and 7 of the confidential

memorandum approved in Executive Council on the 7th

July and concurred in by the Legislative Council on

the 19th July and by the Committee of the Hong Kong

General Chamber of Commerce and the Hong Kong Branch

of the China Committee on the 21st July, copies of

Enclo.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C..S. AERY, M.P.,

&c.,

&c.,

&c.

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