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latest pronouncement however seems to be that
contained in your despatch to the Foreign Office
dated February 17th., 31, and written on board the
Zushimi karu”, from which I gather that some
advance has been made by liis Majesty's Government
in the direction of the recognition of the dual
nationality of British subjects of Chinese descent.
In the course of that despatch you state, in fact,
your conclusion that our proper attitude is now
to recognize the double nationality of Anglo-
Chinese, and to treat them as british when in
British territory and Chinese when in China, If
I may say so, I entirely agree with that view and
it is one which I have advocated for years past.
5. As regards the present case of Mr. Chew, it
would be useless for me to ask the District Court
not to take jurisdiction over him, inasmuch as he
is, in Chinese law, a Chinese national. The only
effective assistance that I could give him would
be to request the Council to instruct the police
not to carry out any orders which the District
Court might make against him.
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The agreement relating to the chinese courts
in the international Settlement, concluded on
Jobruary 17th., 1930, by China and the interested
Powers, provides that Chinese law shall be applied
in the courts and that judicial processes,
as summons, warrants, orders,
such
shall be served
or executed by the judicial police or process
/ servers.
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