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Mr.
Roberts-Wray
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
(21. 4. 48)
Robert - Wrmy. 29 14.fe.
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. S:
Secretary of State.
Your Reference.
DRAFT. S. 0. LETTER.
Dear Beckett,
W. E. BECKETT ESQ.
C.M.G., K. C.,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
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would
Para 2. It might be useful
to add
miles on
•
that Kowloon is 20
British side of
the boundary you
Ternitaris.
leaves
FURTHER ACTION.
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Sin C. Jeffries Sae often issive.
JURISDICTION WITHIN THE WALLED
CITY OF KOWLOON.
Many thanks for your letter of the
19th April. I am grateful to you,
Vallat, and Mervyn-Jones for preparing
a draft. As Kowloon is administered by
the Government of Hong Kong, I think the
case should go to the Law Officers jointly
from you and me.
I have not very much to say on the
details of the draft, but should like to
make the following comments :-
Paragraph 13.
Your minute. It is true that
Sir A. Cadogan's note of the 5th August,
1935 was perhaps unfortunately silent on
the legal issue, but the whole of the
correspondence must, I think, be read
together, and we cannot ignore the
statement in the memorandum of the 14th
"the Governor was August, 1944 that
clearly acting within his rights and no
treaty
question of breach of previous stipulations
arises". I agree of course that it
would have been much better if we had--
inserted the reasoned case put up by
/the