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with the Chinese and that such an offer would be the more effective if it were ssociated with initiative on the Hong Kong question generally. It may.bè, however, that if the Foreign Office wish to press the idea of our making some gesture to the Chinese here is one which could be regarded as in substitution for rather than supplementary of any discussion of the future of the New Territories.
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you agree this is a point which might be made in the draft paper which we have suggested to the Foreign Office that we should draw up. (X in 20).
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e shall not be in a position to express any very definite views on this question until we have the report promised by Sir Mark Young in lo.1 on this file. I aree that there would be some advantage in taking the initiative with the Chinese on the customs point, il' only to try to remove a practical reason which might be urged in favour of the transfer of Hong Kong to China. I do not, however, think that the initiation of negotiations with the Chinese on the customs issue is likely to satisfy the Chinese as a substitute for negotiations for discussions on the other issue, or in any way induce them to refrain from raising the other issue.
Pending the receipt of the report promised by the Governor, I should like a memorandum prepared on the customs question on the recorus and infor.ution available in the Colonial Office. The memorandum should deal particularly with the negotiations referred to in paragraph 47 of the Foreign Office memorandum enclosed with 10.7.
I have now attached to this file minutes and the duplicate of a letter which I have written to r. Kitson of the Foreign Office about the Press report of a pronouncement by the British Ambassador- Designate to China on the subject or discussions with the Chinese on the future of Hong Kong.
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