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41 is interesting. Mr. T.W. Davies, Hr. Cuine and Lur. Bigg may be interested to see after other action on this l'ile.

42, 43, 44 and 45 can be put by.

46 supports a view that has been reported from other quarters (e.g. see X on page 2 of 41) that "the rendition of Hong Kong would, in fact, rill the Chinese themselves with consternation" and that, so long us the status of Chinese in Hong Kong is equal to that of other great powers and they are fully represented in the Government or the Colony, Chinese "race" will be saved.

50 is typical or' the attitude of certain sections of the Chinese press and the Kuomintang controlled press in Hong Kong us reported to us.

51 is a letter from the late Commander-in-Chier to the secretary or state asking whether there is any objection to his giving his personal views on the future of Hong Kong on the lines or his public utterances when he was in the Colony at the 13th November.

a lecture on I have not been able to find any records of the C. in C.'s speeches on this rotter, although I think we received reports or some, but I am fairly certain that they were on "safe" lines. Secretary of State in his pencilled minute on 51 has indicated that he sees no objection to Admiral Harcourt giving his personal views to the members of the Royal Central Asian Society. I submit a draft letter for conson in reply to 51.

AS Mir. MacDougall is coming here tomorrow for a talk between the Department and the Foreign Office on the memorandum on the future of Hong Kong which

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it is suggested should be submitted to the Far Eastern (Official) Committee, perhaps both admiral Harcourt's letter and the draft reply might be to him.

I am asking Mr. Keating to kindly arrange for tickets for admirul Hercourt's lecture to be available for the Department.

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on to Sir Cecil Harcourt, even for his own personal and confidential use, the information in paragraph 2 about our forthcoming discussions with the Foreign Office. The possession of this information might also embarrass him when answering questions. I would, therefore, omit paragraph 2 of the draft. I have added a sentence enclosing for Sir Cecil Harcourt's information a summary of the assurances which have been given concerning

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