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The position of Chinese from the

alay States has, of course, been considered

before in connection with the Anglo-Chinese

question. The point wasraised in Colonial

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office letter to Foreign Office of the 14th

penult para.

October, 1925, (44043/25), see also

Sir G. Grindle's letter of 9th April, 1927,

to Mr. Mounsey (11 on 30014/27) and "r.Moun sey's

reply of 29th April, 1927 (15 on ditto), from

which it appears that Foreign Office were then

prepared to do their best to secure some

satisfactory arrangement with regard to British

protected persons of Chinese race "born or

domiciled" in the Malay States. (I imagine that

"domicile" would not really be a "roper criterion

in this connection,),

Following on this the

High Commissioner was asked in a despatch

dated the 1st June, 1927, (18 on 30014/27), to

furnish the Secretary of State with his

suggestions as

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to how the minimum requirements

of the Malay States Governments could best be

met. No reply to this despatch can be traced

and so far as I can see the point has not again

been raised (excent for the reference in the

Foreign Office memorandum referred to above).

It will be seen that the instructions]

contained in the Foreign Office despatch to

Sic M. Lampson of 21st March, 1929 (in 7 on

62710/29), and reproduced in the memorandum sent

by him to Dr. Wang on the 11th February, 1930,

(in 8 on 72770/30) refer

subjects", which will no

throughout to "British

in default of further explanation, doubt, interpreted in

pe

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the ordinary sense (not as in the China Order

in Council) as excluding British protected

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mersons.

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Sir C. Clementi

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