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Honorary President
Dr Douglas Laing, F.R.C.S., F.A.CS, JP.
Honorary Vice Presidents
Dr S. V. Gittins, O.B.E., QC, L.LD.
Peter Hall, Esq., F.CA
Dr C. J. Symons, C.B.E., LLD.
General Committee
E.P. Ho, Esq., C.B.E., J.P. (President) LC. Kotewall, Esq. (Vice President) Michael Tse. Esq. (Hon Treasurer) Miss J.A. Willis (Hon Secretary)
S.M. Chum, Esq., E.D.
J.C. Fenton, Esq.
Kenneth Lo, Esq., O.B.E., J.P.
S.J. Lowcock, Esq., M.B.E., J.P.
P. Stoppa. Esq.
Frank S.H. Wong Esq.
THE WELFARE LEAGUE
同仁
Registered address:
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Rm. 5608 Hopewell Centre, 183, Queen's Road Est. Hong Kong.
Please reply to:
6 Lloyd Path,
The Peak,
Hong Kong.
22 May 1990.
BRITISH NATIONALITY (HONG KONG) BILL 1990 CLAUSE TO PROVIDE
SPECIFICALLY FOR DESCENDENTS OF BRITONS
The Hong Kong Bill will soon be passed by the House of Commons, and it will then come to the House of Lords for consideration. We fear that the Bill which will be presented to you will not make any specific provision for the handful of our community domiciled here, some no longer in their prime, but all descended from British stock.
are few
2. Why are there only a handful of us left after 150 years of British Rule? It is simply that many saw the impermanence of Hong Kong as a British Crown Colony in the post World War II era of de-colonisation. Accordingly, there Eurasian, or Anglo-Chinese, families which do not have one or more of their members settled in one English-speaking country or another where they have been easily assimilated - in Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the United States.
3. The 1000 or so of us who have opted to remain, including those no longer in our prime, have largely done so with our eyes open, in the sense that we hoped the Sino-British Joint Declaration would work as envisaged. But the events of June 1989 in Beijing, and the ensuing repression in China, has changed all that. Apart from those among us who have British or some alternative citizenship, the remainder all fear the worst without any possibility of British consular protection after 1997, and without the fall-back of a home of last resort in the United Kingdom. We trust the House of Lords will recognise our case for the grant of British citizenship under this Bill not only for those in their prime.
4. The Eurasian or Anglo-Chinese community here will be the section of the population most at risk when Hong Kong reverts to China in 1997, because:
a.
our blood links Britain, make us a continuing
with
the former Colonial Power, reminder of the blot
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