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Eno sure o.1 in despatch to Foreign office No. 879 of 1st August 1928.

Anglo Chinese: proposed issue of denationalisation certificates

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F.0. No.33

Hong Kong To 138

Shanghai

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H.B.M.Consulate General,

danton

April 12th 1928.

C.F.A.. March 19th.

Regulations.

Certificate.

Questionnaire

form.

With reference to my despatch No.27

of the 3rd March concerning British subjects

of Chinese descent, you will recollect that at your interview with Marshal Li Chai-sum on the 27th February, the Marshal and the Commissioner

for Foreign Affairs promised that immediate provision would be made for the issue of renun- ciation or denationalisation certificates, and

that I should be supplied with questionnaire

forms for the use of applicants.

2. Since your departure from Canton, I have not ceased to press this question upon the

attention of the Canton Government, and I now forward a copy and translation of a note from the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, which, with its enclosures, gives effect to the arrangement agreed upon during your visit to this port. The note communicates provisional regulations for issue of denationalisation

His Majesty's Minister,

Peking.

certificates ...