CO129-528-9 Issue of emergency certificates to enable Chinese seamen to land in English ports 6-11-1930 - 8-1-1931 — Page 7

This is so

with.

Reference

529254/16.

7th January, 1931.

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Dear Mr. Caine,

Referring to official correspondence under your reference 72930/30 and our recent telephone conversation regarding the issue of Emergency Certificates in Hong Kong to certain seamen who are to join at Glasgow a vessel being built by the South Sea Inter-Island Phosphate service, I have now seen the earlier correspondence on the issue of

certificates in Hong Kong to people who are unable to obtain national

passports.

If, as is assumed, there is still no Chinese Consul or other

authority in Hong Kong competent to issue national Chinese passports, we can agree to certificates of identity being issued by the Hong

Kong Government to any of these sɛamen who are not already in

possession of valid passports. The certificates should, however, be

marked 'valid for return to Hong Kong' whether the men are return- ing to Hong Kong or not.

S. Caine Esq.,

Yours sincerely,

E.n. Cooper.