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addressed to Nanking tologram No.
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February, 1948 repeated for im'ormation to Hong
Kong.
Your tolerem No. 149: Kowloon.
You wil by now have soon Hong Kong telegram
No. 173 to Jecretary of State for Colonies.
I am in substantial agroarwent with the views
oxpressed therein by Governor of Hong kong.
2. I shall accordingly be grateful if you will Apress the Chinese Rinister for Foreign Affairs once again to accept my original proposal in
regard to care and maintenance of the Garden.
I think there is still a chance that he may prove
amonable in the light of the undertaling on bur
part, which you may now give, regarding the two
arrested man, ngwely that, if agreement is socured,
the Governor of Hong Kong will, as an act or
praco, remit the balance of their sentence on the
date of publication of a joint statement on our
ogTecmont.
Should you find it impossible to make progres:
on those lines, you may Popose to the Minister
for Foreign Affairs that responsibility for care
ey triglia and maintenance of the Garden should be vested)in a joint comittoe of custodians, consisting of
an equal number of nominees appointed by each of
the two governments, and jointly responsible for
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its control, I consider that the cost of laying out and maintaining the Garden should Eikeviso † borne jointly by the two Government but that
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