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bution Cypher/OTP
reign Office No. 835 *GHT SECRET.
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ganda broadcasts against ticularly in Canton and
made of any trivial
ministration of the colony Lon to China.
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ive of dissatisfaction
non co-operative attitude
3. This complaint is
true and the Ministry have
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hed a copy of a directive
› Canton Headquarters of
use the hawker incident to paign for the return to
3. I yesterday handed
to the Minister for
t that its existence hardly
atonese dissatisfaction was Foreign Affairs attempted
le promised to take the Committee of the Kuomintang the efforts of the W.C.P. facerbating the situation.
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Paragraph_7(e)
Paragraph 7(p).
F.E.(0) (46)122 of 5th December
Suggested Amendments
(A) By the Governor
73A
Insert the words "(with one possible exception)" after the word "are" in the 8th line. (Since this paper was prepared, a proposal has been put forward to site the airfield within the ceded area of the Colony. This is under consideration.)
Add at the end of this sub-paragraph: There 18 however a proposal to site the new airfield in the ceded area of the Colony. This is under consideration. The estimated cost is £10,000,000."
For the words "them their objective" in the 10th and 11th lines, substitute "to surrender the lease! (The Governor has sugested this as he thinks that it would be mislealing to describe the surrender of the New Territories lease as the objective of the Chinese.)
(B) By the Colonial Office
(1) The main paper might be shortened and so made more acceptable to Ministers if the factors governing our policy in paragraph 7 were taken out and put in an appendix to the paper. Paragraph 8 would then become paragraph 7, the first sentence being replaced by the following two sentences: "The factors to be taken into consideration in formulating the line to be adopted in the event of negotiations with the Chinese, whether on our own initiative or on that of the Chinese, are summarised in Annexure .............
These factors seem to point to
two possible alternatives."
(11) The conclusion in the last paragraph might be strengthened, in view of what the Governor says in his telegram of the 4th 3eptember,
by an additional sentence to the effect that the Governor of Hong Kong attaches great importance to the issue of such a statement at the earliest possible moment.
Colonial Office,
10th December, 1946.
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