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Your telegram No. 298 of 14th March.
Kowloon City.
PART I
1. The Case has been referred to
the Law Officers of the Crown and their
opinion is awaited as to the chances of it
success should the gase be taken to the
International Court. Preliminary
advice indicates that while our case is
good, it is far from cast-iron.
2. Meanwhile, following en informal
conversation with Sir Stafford Cripps,
the Chinese Ambassador has left at the
a proposal for Foreign Office Memorandum proposing a
new compromise solution, the text of
follows
which is contained in Part II, of this
savingram,
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not fue 3. The proposal is, of course, open
be objection on the major point that it
involves a partial surrender of British
jurisdiction to the Chinese. It is,
however, the first indication of a
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compromise attitude on the part of the
Chinese and in view of the possibility
of advice from the Law Officers that
our case is not so strong as had been
thought I consider it merits careful
consideration.
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