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54145/4/47 Secret.

OUTWARD TELEGRAM

Code

IMPORTANT

TO HONG KONG (0.A.G.)

FROM S. OF S.. COLONIES.

Sent 16th June, 1947, 15.45 hrs.

No. 959 Confidential.

My immediately preceding telegram.

Deletions

and amendments are as follows, (References are to paragraphs in Young's despatch No. 145).

(a)

Faragraph 17 (ə). Omission of reference to original proposal that there should be differentiation between non-British Chinese on one hand, and Americans and nen-British Eurepeans on the other in the matter of residential qualification, by amendment of second sentence of this sub-paragraph so as to read "The period of residential qualification required in their case would presumably have to be the same as for Chinese who are not British subjects".

(b) Paragraph 24 (vi). Following consequential amendments to this sub-paragraph viz.

(1) deletion of the word "Chinese" in second sentence and substitution of the words "all persons"

(2) deletion of words "non-British Europeans and Americans" after the words "British subjects".

(c) Paragraph 25. Following amendment consequential. ɔn (a) and (b) above also appears necessary. In first sentence, delete "for Chinese subjects", and in second sentence aubstitute "not British subjects"-for "Chinese subjects".

(a) Paragraph 37. Reference to usual condition regarding duration of term of leases in the case of the Few Territories to be amplified by amending the third sentence of this paragraph to read "I assume that it would be the wish of His Majesty's Goverment that the land and buildings which would be required by the Municipality should be leased to them at a nominal rental for the period of 75 years renewable in the case of the Island and the ceded portion of the Kowloon Peninsula and, in the case of those within the administrative area of the Municipality (1.e. New Kowloon) which would lie within the boundaries of the New Territories, on the usual condition as to the duration of the term (occasioned by the fact that the New Territories are held on lease and do not form part of the ceded portion of the Colony) which it has been customary to include in all leases relating to land and buildings in those territories".

2. I assume that it is intended that the enclosures to Sir M. Young'a despatch No. 145 of 22nd October, 1946, should be published with that despatch, and I suggest that the following amendments should be made to enclosure 7

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