CO129-501-3 Chinese situation- Protection of British subjects of Chinese race 23-10-1926 - 21-12-1927 — Page 48

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granted British naturalisation papers, local or imperial, or whose British birth is authenticated

by the appropriate British authorities, provided he

takes steps (for which machinery must be instituted)

definitely to divest himself of his Chinese

nationality. We consider further that the process of divestment should be declared unnecessary in the

case of any Chinese authenticated as born in British

territory of parents and grandparents similarly born.

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