Registry No.
177.
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Draft. Note
from His
Majesty's
Ambassador
NANKING
to
Minister of
Foreign Affairs
NANKING.
Your Excellency,
I have the honour to refer to our
agreement of to-day's date concerning the
conversion of the old walled city of Kowloon
into a Garden of Remembrance.
2.
them
Arrangements will of course be necessary to
provide for those persons who now occupy huts
etc., erected in the old walled city. As
Your Excellency is I think aware, the Hong
Kong Government have already agreed to provide
alternative sites for these in the New
Territories, and I am glad to inform Your
Excellency that these sites are still available
and that the Hong Kong Government are prepared
to supply a certain amount of the necessary
timber and other material. I understand that
the Chinese Government will for their part
co-operate, in so far as with lies, in
making the necessary arrangements to ensure that
the removal takes place with the maximum degree
of smoothness and that adequate publicity is
given in China to the reasons for the removal.
3. Sanitary facilities will obviously be
required for the Garden of Remembrance.
are Hong Kong Governments are prepared to provide
these and I am sure Your Excellency will agree
that in the interests of public health and as a
matter of practical convenience this is the
ideal arrangement.
The
4. I shall be grateful if Your Excellency will
confirm that my understanding in paragraph 2
above represents the view of the Chinese
Government and that the latter agree to the
proposal in paragraph 3.
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