Singapore, 16th December.
The British Minister at Peking, in reply to the Straits Government, has refused to acknowledge Khun Yiong as a British Sir Claude Macdonald has forwarded to the Government a long statement from the British Consul at Amoy. In thut statement, the Consul traverses the allegations made by Khun Yiong in his petition to the Straits Government. The Consul deni that the petitioner is a resident in Straits Settlements. He says Khun Yiong has always resided in Amoy, where he has a wife and family. He has always passed as a Chinese, and he owns Innded property in the interior which no British subject is allowed to do.
On these grounds, the British Minister at Peking refuses to acknowledge Khun long.
copy of the Consul's statement has been forwarded by- the Government ta Messrs. Braddell Bros., who are represeuting Khun Yiong, with the request that they will produce such evidence as "they can in support of the petitioner's statements.
Until the Straits Government are in possession of evidence that will clearly prove Khun Yiong to be a British subject, and that will rebut the evidence of the British Consul, nothing further can be done.—Straits Times.
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