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Dear Mackillop,
Canton despatch to Peking No.171 of the 4th
December (Foreign Office reference F.738/738/10
of the 18th February) shows that some difficulty is
being experienced in determining the position, under
the new Chinese Nationality Law, of the children
of denationalised Anglo-Chinese, 1.e. Chinese who
are British subjects and have divested themselves
of Chinese nationality by obtaining a denationalisation
certificate. We ourselves have felt some doubt whether
the Foreign Office were correct in ruling (paragraph 2
of despatch to Poking No.107 of the 28th January,
F.5984/55/10) that "the omission from the new
Nationality Law of February 5th, 1929, of Article XV
of the Law of December 30th, 1914, indicates that
under the new law the children of an Anglo-Chinese who
has received a certificate of denationalisation born
D.MACKILLOP,ESQ.
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