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DRAFT. LETTER.

P.W. SCARLETT, ESQ.

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Your Reference.

Permt. U.S. of S.

Parly. U.S. S:

Secretary of State:

BY HAND Immediate

189

fith

March, 1948.

FOREIGN OFFICE.

accpg. araft

FURTHER ACTION.

Walled City of Kowloon

It seems clear from the Ambassador's

telegram No.231 that no proposals will be

acceptable to the Chinese unless they give

them the right to exercise jurisdiction within

the Walled City of Kowllon.

The Ambassador says in paragraph 4

of his telegram No.231 that we seem to have

reached the situation foreseen in paragraph 3

of Hong Kong telegram No.214, where the

Governor contemplated our having to fall back

on the Consulate compound idea. As however

the Chinese have now made it so clear that

nothing short of jurisdiction will satisfy

them, I doubt whether the above course is

still open to us. We should have to get an

assurance from the Chinese that they would

not represent a solution on these lines to be

an admission of their claim to jurisdiction

and an agreement to their exercising it,

should the occasion arise, and there is

obviously no chance of their doing this. The

alternative courses open to us seem to be:

(a) to leave things as they are:

(b)

to proceed with the original proposal

for a park:

(c)