H.E.
C. O.
Mr.
Martin.
1/31.
Calder.
Mr.
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Mr. Tomlinson.
Sir C. Bottomley.
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Sir G. Grindle.
Permt. US. of S.
Parly. U. of S.
Secretary of State.
C:
3
82770/1931. Hong rong.
5
Downing Street,
CONFIDENTIAL.
February, 1931.
Quarto for Sir G. Grindle's sig.
DRAFT.
SIR WILLIAM PEEL,K.S.M.G.,K.B.M.
(45172858/20)
My dear Feel,
I let Wellesley,
have a copy of your note on Kowloon
and the New Territories (enclosed
in your letter of the 12th of Novr)
He was much interested
but suggested that the memorană um
would have been more valuable if it
had made a more definite distinction
between the territory ceded to us
in 1860 and the New Territories
leased to us in 1898. He points
out that irredentist demands by the
Copy to Sir V. Wellesley. LF
from Sir G. Grinule.
Không
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Corporate
Chinese are likely to be aimed at the
latter in the first instance, and a
memorandum in which Hong Kong and
coȧed