Pt II
PART II.
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MEMORANDUM LEFT BY THE CHINESE EMBASSY
AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE ON 28TH APRIL 1948.
Both
The Government of the Republic of China and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have been considering an
amicable and reasonable settlement of the controversy which has
recently arisen in connection with the City of Kowloon,
Governments, having throughout maintained their claims in good
faith, consider that the issue does not warrant a dispute
between two peace-loving peoples with a long standing
tradition of friendship.
with this in view the two Governments have mutually
agreed that the area in which the City of Kowloon is situated
shou be converted into a garden of remembrance, to be
called the Chung Shan Park and to be dedicated to the
sacred memory of the Chinese and British nationals who lost
their lives in the common cause against the Japanese
aggression. It has now also been agreed that the safe-keeping
and administ ation of this garden of remembrance should be
entrusted, under rules to be mutually agreed, to two trustees
to be appointed respectively by the Provincial Government
of Kwangtung and the British authorities in the leased
territory of Kowloon, and that the Chinese trustee should
have an office in the garden.
It is hoped that the inspiration of this sacred
trust will ensure its undisturbed peace and tranquillity
and that the spirit of remembrance to which the garden is
dedicated will be perpetuated.
[By
Faller