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DRAFT. CYPHER TELEGRAM

No.1094

GOVERNOR

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BONG KONG

(19)

KECEIVED JAGOT 1946

NOT COPIED

FURTHER ACTION.

(20)

Your telegram No.1084 and your

savingram No.180. Status of Kowloon City.

1. I am glad to have these reports

and wish at once to assure you that I fully

appreciate the importance of countering

quickly both the newspaper campaign on

this subject and the provocative

activities of Mr. Kwok. By adopting these.

methods in preference to the normal course

of representation through diplomatic

channels, the Chinese went far to compel

you to retort in kind. I gather from

Nanking telegram No.552 that the Ministry

of Foreign Affairs is not actively

supporting Mr. Kwok, and I have no doubt

that the announcement which you issued

has influenced their attitude.

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There is, of course, one possible

In this came disadvantage in this counter publicity,

namely that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

may well feel impelled, for reasons of

face, to support Mr. Kwok to the extent

of refusing to entertain any representations

we might decide to make to them with a view

to his removal. It seems unlikely that

they would be prepared to withdraw him

from