In any further communication on this subject, please quote
No.
F 4600/239/10
and address-
not to any person by name,
but to-
"The Under-Secretary of State,"
Foreign Office,
London, S. W.1.
-70CT 1931
10°
FOREIGN OFFICE,
S.W.1.
69
q
Sir,
84
6th October, 1931.
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I am directed by the Marquess of Reading to refer to your
letter No. 82791/31 of the 22nd August enclosing copy of a
despatch from the Governor of the Straits Settlements on the
subject of the status of British born subjects and British
protected persons of Chinese race.
2. The statement in the second paragraph of your letter
under reference to the effect that the Chinese Government would
not be justified in requiring a British subject or British
protected person of Chinese race to take out a Chinese passport
in Malaya in order to travel to China appears to His Lordship
to go somewhat too far. In the analogous case of persons who
possess dual British-Argentine, British-Brazilian or British-
Chilean nationality the Argentine, Brazilian and Chilean
Governments respectively insist upon their taking out Argentine,
Brazilian or Chilean passports as the case may be when travelling
o those countries from the United Kingdom and His Majesty's
Government have felt unable to raise objection to this requirement.
3. With regard to the suggestion that an individual in
Malaya possessing dual British-Chinese nationality should receive
a British passport to travel abroad irrespective of whether he
is going to China or not, I am to invite attention to the
correspondence terminating with your letter No. 82797/31 of the
10th August last in which it was decided that no change shall be
Cofiy
of 92089/52.
S.S.
F.M.S.
G
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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