DRAFT CYPHER TELEGRAM
IMMEDIATE
TO: GOVERNOR, HONG KONG. Repeated wanking.
FOR FOREIGN OFFICE CONCURRENCE
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Kowloon City.
1. You have presumably received your copies of
Nanking telegrams Nos. 229 and 231.
2. It seems quite clear from latter telegram
that nothing short of actual exercise of jurisdiction
will be acceptable to Chinese. In these circum-
stances, if it were decided, in spite of the
Chinese uncompromising attitude, to make a further
effort and put forward the Consulate compound idea,
the
the Chinese are not likely to give us assurance, for
certainly
which we should have to ask, namely that they would
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not claim that such a solution was an admission of
Their
their claim to jurisdiction and right to exercise it.
Subject to your agreement it is not therefore
proposed to put forward the proposal for a
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3.
The alternative courses open to us seem to
be (a) to leave things as they are, (b) to proceed
with the proposal for a park, (c) to proceed with
the proposal for a Garden of Remembrance.
4. There is a further question which arises,
Whichever of the above alternatives is adopted,
question arises
namely whether we should indicate to the Chinese
that if they wished to take their claim to
jurisdiction to the International Court at The Hague,
we should be agreeable, on the understanding that
they would accept the necessity for any administra-
tive measures on the part of the Hong Kong
Government that might be necessary within the area
pending submission of the question to the
International Court and would take active steps to
ensu