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British Chinese nationals on the one hand, and non-British Europeans and Americans on the other, in regard to residential qualifications.
You will have seen from (d) of our telegram No. 959 of the 16th June that we were proposing an amendment to paragraph 37 of Sir Mark Young's despatch on the subject of the reference to the usual condition regarding the duration of the term of leases in the case of the New Territories, in accordance with the suggestion in the penultimate paragraph of your letter P. 5527/376/10 of the 28th April. This amendment will now of course not be made to Sir Mark Young's despatch when it is published. He personally does not feel that there is any real danger of the original wording of the paragraph in question leading to meculation in the minds of the Chinese that this reference may connote a provision for a possible curtailment of the lease of the New Territories. In the circumstances, we think we can only accept Sir Mark Young's advice on this point, and I think you will agree with us that it would probably be undesirable for us to take up the point in our open despatch, which, as you know, 18 going to be published.
I should mention that we have also agreed to drop the idea of the deletions which we suggested in paragraph 8(1) of our savisgram to Hong Kong No. 32 of the 29th April should be made from his despatch No. 145, prior to its publication.
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