the Sino-British Friendship Park and be administered by
a Committee incorporated by a Hong Kong Ordinance, and
the Kwangtung Provincial Government might be invited to
nominate a representative on the administrative Committee
of the park. While there would then be no question of
Chinese jurisdiction, he thought that this would go far
towards saving the Chinese "face".
Mr. Orde said that they would have to consider
the matter further at the Foreign Office, and that with
regard to the request from the Officer Administering the
Government of Hong Kong, that steps should be taken for
the eviction of the remaining householders within the
city, they would telegraph to His Majesty's Ambassador
in China to ask if he saw any objection. He himself
was of the opinion that the eviction might be completed
and need not be postponed for consideration of the larger
question of jurisdiction which would clearly take time
if the Foreign Office wished to pursue it.