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6th FebruaRATE 1948.

URGENT, BY HAND

DRAFT

MR. Mayle

Mpear

MR.

MR.

Dear carlett,

Here are the amend..ents to the Foreign Office draft telegram to Narking which we put up to Hr. Creech Jones and Mr. Rees-illiams before they Bent over to cao 1. Bovin this morning.

(a)

(b)

ENCLOSURES

FURTHER ACTION

Paragraph 3, twelfth line, insert "So

Jurisdiction" between "claims" and "in".

Paragraph 3, cightcenth line, substitute "appropriate Hong Kong authority" for "Ko:loon Municipality".

(c) Paragraph 3, nineteeath line, for the word

"with" subatitute"between the Hong Kong Government and".

(d) Paragraph 3, trenticth lime, insert the following sentence after the first word

(e)

"Govern ent":- "In any question of jurisdiction affecting Chinese intcresta or Chinese

nationals, outside such rules and regulations, the Hong Kong Government would in all cases consult the Chinese Goverment."

Paragraph 4, fifth line, insert "to jurisdiction" after "claime”

On looking through the draft again, we would like to suggest a further amendment to bring out

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