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Mr. Mayle
5/3/48
6/3/45
Bows Shakam
Mr. Love 437
Mr.
Mr...
DRAFT. LETTER.
P.W. SCARLETT, ESQ.
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Your Reference.
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. S:
Secretary of State:
BY HAND Immediate
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fith
March, 1948.
FOREIGN OFFICE.
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FURTHER ACTION.
Walled City of Kowloon
It seems clear from the Ambassador's
telegram No.231 that no proposals will be
acceptable to the Chinese unless they give
them the right to exercise jurisdiction within
the Walled City of Kowllon.
The Ambassador says in paragraph 4
of his telegram No.231 that we seem to have
reached the situation foreseen in paragraph 3
of Hong Kong telegram No.214, where the
Governor contemplated our having to fall back
on the Consulate compound idea. As however
the Chinese have now made it so clear that
nothing short of jurisdiction will satisfy
them, I doubt whether the above course is
still open to us. We should have to get an
assurance from the Chinese that they would
not represent a solution on these lines to be
an admission of their claim to jurisdiction
and an agreement to their exercising it,
should the occasion arise, and there is
obviously no chance of their doing this. The
alternative courses open to us seem to be:
(a) to leave things as they are:
(b)
to proceed with the original proposal
for a park:
(c)