CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931 — Page 60

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

FEDERATED MALAY STATES.

SECRET.

GOV

NOR

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STRAITS

SET

TLEMENTS

KING'S HOUSE,

KUALA LUMPUR.

RECEIVED/

10 AUG 1931

VOCL. OFFICE

JULY, 193

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My Lord,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of Your Lordship's Secret Despatch of the 9th April,

1951, on the subject of the establishment of a Chinese

Consulate at Kuala Lumpur.

Paragraphs 3 and 4 of that despatch contain a statement

of the policy of His Majesty's Government as regards

the question of the status of British born subjects

and British protected persons of Chinese race and I

now desire to place on record the complete agreement

of the Malayan Governments with the policy laid down

and to emphasize my sincere hope that every possible

effort will be made at an early date to secure the

acquiescence of the Chinese National Government.

Briefly this policy is as follows:-

B.

A.

that the Chinese Government should apply

to British Protected Persons of Chinese race any agreement which may be reached with regard to British subjects of Chinese race;

that British subjects of Chinese race who

visit China and whose names are registered at a British Consulate in China and have been communicated to the Chinese authori- ties will be afforded protection for a period of six months but that such persons will be afforded no further protection and no claim will be made to protect them as British subjects after the expiration of that period unless in the meantime they have secured from the Chinese authorities a certificate of denationalization under the Chinese Law of Nationality;

The Right Honourable

The Lord Passfield of

Passfield Corner, P.C.,

etc., etc.,

COLONIAL

etc. OFFICE.

C.

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