CO129-523-4 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 13-11-1929 - 10-1-1931 — Page 76

In any further communication on this subject, please quote

No. F 3311/738/10

and address--

not to any person by name,

but to-

"

The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

Sir,

RECEIVED

17 JUL 1930

OL OFFICE

FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W. 1.

15th July, 1930.

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I am directed by Mr. Secretary Henderson to refer to

10 your letter No. 72770/30 of the 11th June relating to

certain proposals put forward by the Governor of the

Straits Settlements on the subject of the protection of

British subjects and British protected persons of Chinese

race in Malaya.

62710

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2.

Mr. Henderson agrees that it is desirable that

the arrangement which it is proposed to negotiate as

regards protection in China of British subjects of Chinese

race should apply equally to British protected persons of

Chinese race, and he proposes to instruct Sir M. Lampson

to endeavour to secure the consent of the Chinese

Government to the adoption of this course when the

negotiations on the subject are resumed.

3. With regard to the Governor's further proposals

referred to in your letter under reference Sir C. Clementi

appears not to have recalled the despatch of the 10th April

1929 addressed to him at Hongkong by Mr. Amery (Colonial office reference No. 62710/1929), enclosing copy of the 29 instructions sent to Sir M. Lampson, as well as the

previous correspondence leading up to the issue of these

instructions. In January 1927 His Majesty's Government

in the United Kingdom informed the Chinese Authorities

that they were prepared to recognise the validity of a

reasonable Chinese Nationality law. On this basis Sir

M. Lampson, in his despatch No. 879 of August 1st, 1928,

62710/29

The Under Secretary of State,

(copy/

Colonial office.