It can, however, have no effect of itself as municipal law, according to the principles of English juris- prudence, until it is recognised by Statute. The best course would be to schedule the document to Hong Kong Ordinance and give it the force of law. I do not know whether the Chinese would be likely to object, but if they to do like- wise I suppose we should not wish to try to stop them.

Aage.

17th February, 1948ḥ,

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my

above) and substituting the Roberti Wray's panage for the sentence at B.

be

The latter may. I fear. difficult to put over the Chinese, but

to document which is not explicit will be worth anything.

As regards of Robert Way's

last para...

1

we are at the moment, only dealing with the public aumour cement, which would in any case have the

cmplified in some document exchanged

between the parkés

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