M.E.D.
17) A
F.0.
February
1948.
KOST IKMEDIATE.
Addressed to Nanking No.
CONFIDENTIAL.
H.M. Ambassador,
Nanking.
No:
Cypher.
Political
Distribution.
Repeat to:
Hong Kong.
Repeated for Information to Hong Kong.
My telegram No. 184 Zor 27th February -
Kowloon 7.
Chinese Ambassador called again this
efternoon with his Minister to discuss Kowloon
eituation. He said that while we were dis-
cussing settlement the two arrested persons
were still in prison. If we did not reach
settlement soon, their sentence would expire
and there would then be no act of grace
involved in their release.
2. Ambassador then referred to conversa-
tion with Minister last week and asked whether
suggestion then mentioned that Garden of
Remembrance should be entrusted to two
trustees who might be the Special Commissioner
for Foreign Affairs and Colonial Secretary
of Hong Kong respectively, had ever been put
to the Chinese Government. He asked further
if he could be given any idea of the draft
statement which we told the Minister we were
considering when the new Chinese proposal
brought matters to a standstill.
3.
Having been told that we had not yet
put the suggestion of the two trustees to the
Chinese Government, Ambassador asked whether
you could not be invited to do so. He thought
it would be useful for the Chinese to have this
alternative as well as the one put tọ him by
the Secretary of State yesterday.