893.00/14858
The Ambassador in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 24.]
Sir: I have the honor to enclose for the Department’s information a copy of a bulletin of the China Information Committee (propaganda release of the Ministry of Information) dated May 12, 1942,3 concerning the formation of the South Seas Chinese Association on May 10, 1942, at Chungking.
The Association’s aims, as stated in the bulletin, are the wartime relief of overseas Chinese from the South Seas and the postwar reconstruction of Chinese enterprises in those areas. Its board of directors and ranking officers are composed of the leaders of the Kuomintang Party, testifying to the importance placed by the party in strengthening the ties between China and the Chinese of the South Seas. The efforts of the Chinese Government to obtain the support of these overseas Chinese has both political and economic significance in view of their numbers and their economic position in the past in the South Seas region. It should be noted that those persons of Chinese [Page 732] race resident in foreign countries, who under the laws of those countries are considered as citizens thereof, are held by Chinese nationality laws to be Chinese citizens.
Respectfully yours,
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