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Rca 7 MAY 14
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 28th. February, 1914.
I am directed to inform you that His Excellency the Governor has had under consideration your letter of the 19th. November relative to the terms imposed by this Government in respect of the lease of an area which it is desired to take up for
the purposes of a Portuguese Reservation.
2. His Excellency is in sympathy with the objects of the Scheme, and he cannot agree with your contention that this
Government has adopted a hostile attitude towards it. After full
consideration of the points raised in your letter under reply “hi he is prepared to recommend the lease to the Secretary of State
for the Colonies subject to the modifications shown in the revised draft regulations which are enclosed herewith. His Excellency
hopes that you will be able to see your way to accept the terms
now proposed.
3. With regard to the concluding paragraph of your letter, as it was hoped that a satisfactory arrangement might
still be arrived at, the copies of documents and correspondence
which have passed between this Government and yourself have not
been forwarded to the Secretary of State pending this further
reference to you.
I have etc..
(Sd.) Claud Severn,
Colonial Secretary.
C. Liontague Ede, Esq.
P.S. The Secretary of State has decided that with regard
to compensation for tenants improvements at the expiration of leases, the principle that the whole value of tenants improvements will not be confiscat. -ed at the end of a lease shall apply to reneable Leases in the Colony.