CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931 — Page 9

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заповний Jorastin 25.9.71

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360. Goc. Stads- Conf

25.9-31

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2. 9. 31

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comments on provisions of cxtra-brodoviality treaty concerning the status of British born subjects and British protected persons of Chinese rac F.O. Tel. To Peking 294 of

30.9.4

361

5.10.71

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481

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6.10.31

7.10.31

Nos. 361-364 may be put by.

As regards No. 360, I think Sir C.

We

Clementi has rather gone off the rails.

have always kept separate the questions of

extra-territoriality and protection of Anglo-

Chinese.

The former is a matter of securing

or maintaining special privileges for British

subjects in China. The latter is concerned with

settling what persons shall be regarded

as British subjects in China, and accordingly

entitled both to the special extra territoriality

privileges and the ordinary rights of British

subjects abroad in particular, protection

by the British Government against illegal

actions by the local authorities) There are

advantages about keeping the two subjects separate,

and I think there will be definité disadvantage

world at Ecasione

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