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Professor P B Harris, head of the Political Science Department in Hong Kong University, as conveyed in an article he contri- buted to International Affairs, Volume 48, No 1, January 1972.
6. Finally, you may like to know that a recent FCO Planning Paper on Hong Kong (ref: PC 76/11, classified SECRET), at paragraph 11 of the draft version circulated on 5 March 1976, speaks of the Island of Victoria, the southern tip of the Kowloon peninsula and Stonecutters Island as all "ceded in perpetuity" by the 1842 Treaty of Nanking and the 1860 Convention of Peking.
7. I do not know of any agreement subsequent to the Convention of Peking which may have clarified Article VI of the Convention.
8. Before he left for Hong Kong, David Wilson took photocopies of some of the entries in the Blue Book - State Papers for 1899 on matters relating to the extension of Hong Kong territory. A certain amount of correspondence passed between Sir Claude MacDonald in Peking and the Marquess of Salisbury at the Foreign Office in the period leading up to the signing of the 1898 agreement; and I imagine that David Wilson has had some of this material copied.
Yours ever
Susan
S Pares (Ms)
Far Eastern Section Research Department
cc :J Thompson Esq, MBE
CC
HKGD
I C Orr Esq, FED
KC Walker, Esq, Assessments Staff
without Enclosures
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