Kentwell—I_ have my Chinese] legal adviser here, who went with me to the City Court when I re-Inownced my allegiance to Great Britain because of the snobs who! have. brought disgrace to Great Britain. Tam ashamed of them as my nationals and I renounce my allegiance. This is the class of people who have brought on the disgrace. They are stabs and provi people who are looked upon with shame by the Chinese. I did not rrogister this year at the British Consulate.
The Registrar—The next step for you to prove your assertions. Mr. Ward, have you an interest?
Mr. Lipson Ward—I have been "instructed to-represent the interests of the Crown.
Kentwell—Yer and he has been instrumental in having my name removed. from the Register of this Interior could grant naturalization Papers to a person who had resided, for five years in China, who held property, or who had the professional standing ang the ability to support himself. -Kentwell had been in China ten years and he was a lawyer, so he could be made a Chinese citizen. Art, 6, Section 1, also sail that naturalization could be allowed persons whose parents, either father or mother, were Chinese.
Kentwell—And my mother Chinese.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.