(Orig. on 25113/11/149)
M Pale
Please
I understand
17:
parn. 6 of (1).
M' Sidebotham
has already mentioned to
he
you
whether
question
raised
there in
sovereignty
of the
the heased Teritories
8།
si Hong Kong
rests
with the
emorandum
Chinese Government
period of the lease.
I find that
examined
in 1937
andum by the Freign
Effico Legal Adoriser
The view expressed
at (1) there in
during the
this question
and
there
53852/37
that inasmuch
an
the New Territories
were
leased
and
not
ceded in
strict law, the territory remains
Churère territory under
sovereignty;
but that
residual Chimese in practice the
positin
anomalous since the
leased territory
Weated
in all
respects for the team though it
57
the lease
ceded
hr (2)
to HM.G. 53852/37
Ragged in
had been
in full sovereignty.
however
we
drew
Vol. 5 attached
F.o.
to
The
the attention the
hew officer' opinion of
27th September, 1899
in which they
stated regarding the New Territories
"(
This territory has been ceded is British territory
The questio seems
the
it
Cherefore