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G.V. KITSON, ESQ., C.B.E.,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Kitson,

6th

June, 1947.

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Draft telegram 'B'

Draft telegram 'C'

FURTHER ACTION.

!

Constitutional changes in Hong Kong

Please refer to the correspondence resting

with your letter No.F 5527/376/10 of the

28th April.

You have had a copy of our secret

savingram to Hong Kong No.32 of the 29th April

and also copies of Sir Mark Young's secret

telegram No.817 of the 13th May in reply, and of

our further telegram to the Acting Governor of

Hong Kong No.875 of the 1st June, in which we

put to him a proposal for widening the present

franchise qualifications.

As I think you know, the intention is

that Sir Mark Young's despatch No.145;

containing his recommendations for the

establishment of a Municipal Council and a

revision of the constitution of the Legislative

Council, should be published in Hong Kong,

together with my Secretary of State's official

despatch in reply, as soon as the latter has

been sent. We have, as you know, made a very

close and detailed examination of Sir Mark

Young's recommendations, and this has

inevitably taken some considerable time.

We

feel.

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