presumes that Seiying Luk has been again informed that the restoration of Chinese jurisdiction in Kowloon is out of the question.
FOR
EASTERN COLONIAL OFFICE
DOMESTIC.
No. 34388
RECO & PECE 9 DEC 99 695
British Interests in China
Further as to
Previous Paper: F.O. 28581.
Subsequent Paper: 4746
(Minutes.)
The turn of the Declaration now proposed in the marked passage of the enclosed letter is satisfactory inasmuch as it will exclude the Leased Territory at Hongkong; but surely it would be too great a leap in the dark to make a declaration in respect of all future territory or spheres of interest which may hereafter be acquired by us, as is virtually proposed.
I would suggest instead of what the U.S. Ambassador proposes that "the Declaration should be framed so as to apply expressly to the territory of Weihaiwei".
Mr Cox, Mr Lucas.
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