Snclosure in Canton despatch No. 128 of September 14th, 1929.
Extract from "The Canton Gazette", September 14th, 1929.
CONSULS MAY BE FLACED IN MACAO AND HONGKONG.
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In view of the fact that all the Provincial Foreign Offices will shorly be abolished, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dispatched representatives to the different foreign coastal ports to investigate into the conditions of the Chinese residents so that consuls may be placed there to take care of their welfare.
It is said that the investigators have now returned to the Ministry to which they have reported in full details the results of their trips.
In their report, it has been suggested that consuls be placed in both the ports of Hongkong and Macao where mo re than one million Chinese are found residing.
The strongest reason they forwarded in support of their recommendation for consuls to be placed in the ports mentioned, is that most of the Chinese staying there do not know to which nation they belong. quite many Chinese in Hongkong are found to claim themselves to be British, Subjects, but at the same time they have not denationalized themselves from China as required by the Chinese Law of denationalisation.
And by being so, these Chinese have created a very peculiar position for themselves as well as for the Chinese Government which cannot recognize to what nationality they belong unless they renounce one citizenship or the other.
Then the report goes on to say that the Chinese in Hongkong have no representation, for the fact that the so-called Chinese representatives on the Hongkong Legislative Council serve only as the Hongkong Government's mouth-piece toward the Chinese. The Chinese in Macao are in a similar position.
The report further says that if the Ministry does not find it necessary to place consuls in both the porta mentioned, at
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