No. F
92/5007/0.
SECK T
Mr. Monson
fry
dear Ambossador)
161
FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.
14th December, 1942.
tairs
SCOR
In the memorandum enclosed in my letter of the 23rd November relating to the relinquishment of
etraterritoriality in China it was stated in the penultimate paragraph that the Chinese Government had
asked for the inclusion in Article 5 of the Sino-British
treaty of additional clauses terminating the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory signed at
Peking in 1898.
I should now like to add for the information of
the Department of State that His Majesty's Government
are not prepared to consider this matter in connexion
with the present treaty, since not only has the area leased by the Convention nothing to do with
His Excellency
The Honourable
John G. Einant.
extraterritoriality,/
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