F8391/820/10 OUTWARD TELEGRAM
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24 UES 1942
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CHINA.
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FROM FOREIGN OFFICE TO CHUNGKING.
D. 5.25 p.m. 23rd December,1942.
23rd December, 1942.
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My telegram No. 1608 [of 19th December: leased territory].
Kowloon
You are authorised to seek a solution on the lines of compromise suggested by Han Li-wu.
2. Reply to His Majesty's Government to the Chinese communication would be to the effect that the future of the New Territories is outside the scope of the present agreement and His Majesty's Government. cannot discuss it now; but if the Chinese Government desire that terms of the lease of these territories should be reconsidered that is a matter which in His Majesty's Government's opinion should be discussed at the Peace Conference.
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