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1. It is inevitable that there will be nationalist and solit.cai agitation in China and elsewhere, articularly in some ciroles in Amerioa and India, for the return of Hongkong to China. It is pully true that it is in our, and ropuli moat wople's intere.ts, bout ib shodd remain in British hands and as froù from wariizo interference As will be poss.blu in the past where conditions hava levar oson mju disturbed. kreco,aitim of Chikde sovereignty nay become necessary Jone my, but oortuinly not now.
It will not be ̧08cioso to reach a formai aras unt on thlus nosumption with the di.jliose dovurnment Leonasu tuny ure bound, by nationalist undertakinã, to de und tae imodiu e rendition of Yonga T At best ve could rollo. the missians' wad in kucnuria saw recognise China's sovereignty on a tairty your Juais put so are not in a osition
o act in the dang ich handed rancor as the
1. does, bi is to say use force to mate our agredients entirely one-sided and in var favour, this is what is caring iw o in Munchuria. It Soup, therefore, tikt me Bhumid gain noth ng by uggro ching to Ci, hơsu.
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It is n.cussury, Low-Vor", 34416 (a) tu pat kongsing on so & modern ayshon of Gover ent while. is in i.NO with the ourrent trend of colonial emancipeti V
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to tim uople wh· live in Tongkong, (b) to del.onstrate to our critics in China and America th t our labentiuls are fund. This may tezu sono af the wind out of the walls of tlær opposition und will surely strongthon the hands of Jur friends ih need sono indication that we are voving towards freadas und democrncy in ur colonial policy. There are any Chinese who hope tiu t *y will caku chu land in the last in putting the * ideas into practice.
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I suggest th t .7. Bold naku fon kang" along the following lines1
"Declaration regarding
(a) The Crown Colony a longsong will in futurs be known, and xiministered as the "Free Port and unicipality of Hongkong" (It shoud uwe noted here blunt the woras "Crown Colony" are psychologically unacceptable in the seat of their sont day).
(b) Hongkong will be a Free Port, thay is to say the slāps of all natione aby unter fruely into the witors of Hong cong » harbour dues and port charkuɛ will be ta ntained at a lovei sur: ictent o ly for blw saintenance and improvumunt of the Port and los fuollities. Thare will be no customs dalies other chua Lnown imposed by Che Chinese Govern ent, on gouda entoring China overland from the municipality. (At pr.cont ta a CGAIN roupant between Hanging and Ca na, and the unide o may Jant to 7Price it).
(c) The municipality will be vaniu.stored by a Governor, though the title could we changed with wivuntage, de sili in future po supported by an elected counciì. It vil. be n、cessary to eatabl sh municipal regulations and a sufrago limited at first per ape, which can be considered fair to British, Chinese and other foreign interests in fougkong. This system will roplace one of selection of Councils which is no longer suitable to modern conditions in the for kat where the slogan "taxation withou), ropre.ontation" has alr ady been und will no doubt again be raised. The British ther:suivus may raise it in Shanghai as the Chinese did „efore their rob s
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