CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928 — Page 95

In any further communication this subject, please quote

No. 560/112/10

and address-

not to any person by name,

but to-

The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

Confidentia".

X52710

FOREIGN OFFICE.

997

K

S.W.1.

2 2FEB 1928

20th February, 1928.

COL. OFFICE

Sir,

30014/27

no31

(10 copies)

With reference to the letter from this department

no 6813/6813/10 of the 22nd September last, I am directed

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by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to transmit herewith,

to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies,

a memorandum on the subject of the protection of Anglo-

Chinese in China. Sir Austen Chamberlain would be glad if

copies of this memorandum could be sent to the Governors

of the Straits Settlements and Hong Kong and to the High

Commissioner of the Malay States with a request that they

furnish their considered views on the whole question. Copies

of the memorandum with a similar request are being forwarded

to His Majesty's Minister at Peking and the various consular

officers in China who have had special experience in dealing

with this question. Sir Austen Chamberlain suggests, for

the consideration of Mr. Secretary Amery, that the

interdepartmental conference proposed in the letter from

no33.

the Colonial Office No. 30014/1927 of the 3rd October

might be held after the replies from the above-named

officers have been received by the departments concerned.

1 am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

George Mounsey.

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.