OUTWARD TELEGRAM
FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES
54445/16/18 Part III
Cypher (0.T. P.)
TO HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)
DIPORTANT
O VER CON LINE vartene me me fententire pit, KYA UN
Sent 30th October, 1948.
No. 1115 Secret.
MERENSNICE ZEKERINGATANČI
17.15 hrs.
Following personal from Paskin.
Begine,
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Your telegram No. 956 about Kowloon City le now being considered in consultation with other Departments concerned.
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Grateful if, meanwhile, you will resolve what appears to be on ambiguity in the first two sentences of paragraph 7 of that telegram, These might conceivably refer either to the possibility of the Hong Kong Government's case for going to International Court falling to prevail with us here, or to the British case failing to prevail with the Internâtional Court,
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If the former meaning is intended then it is not clear to us W you put forward the minimum conditions detailed in (a) (a) of paragraph 7, since the alternative of a compromise solution, such as the consulate-general proposal, would secure all of these and other advantageo in addition - e.g. Chinese jurisdiction would not (ropeat not) have been admitted.
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If on the other hand the second meaning mentioned in paragraph 2 above is intended, than the terms of paragraph 7 esem not quite consistent with it, since, 17 the matter were argued before the Court, we could not insist (repeat insist) that this or that qualifying atipulation was "essential" to us. We should be in the hands of the Court,
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