CO129-523-4 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 13-11-1929 - 10-1-1931 — Page 22

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hal f-masting his flag on Chinese "Humiliation"

Days, we have instructed His Majesty's Minister

to make a

protect to the Nanking Government.

There are of course two sides to this. lf we

force the Malayan Governments to accept the

accesses aspossible

Foreign Office policy of treating Chinajas an

new

Chinajas

e qual and demanding no unequal privileres,

we must on our part insist that no gross

irregularity or discourtesy on behalf of the

representatives of the Chinese Government in

Malaya shall be passed over without immediate and

emphatic representations to Nanking, representa-

tions accompanied if necessary by acts (such as

the withdrawal of an exequatur).

? Draft a reply to 8 on 72392 on these

lines and send it to Foreign Office for

concurrence with copies of both the Straits

despatches.

(bater

we can refly to 22 on this

file by a short dest referring to cur refly on the

Otus file)

1.2. Martin

22.10.30

I agree that it seems to be out of the

Jagree

question to attempt to obtain for British Chinese the special arrangement

that the Dutch secured in 1911 or to

attempt to limit: Chinese Consul Generne's to purely commerical duties. But it is clear that the plazayan objection to a Chinese Consulat dinala Lumpur asives from the fact that that consul