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17) A

F.0.

February

1948.

KOST IKMEDIATE.

Addressed to Nanking No.

CONFIDENTIAL.

H.M. Ambassador,

Nanking.

No:

Cypher.

Political

Distribution.

Repeat to:

Hong Kong.

Repeated for Information to Hong Kong.

My telegram No. 184 Zor 27th February -

Kowloon 7.

Chinese Ambassador called again this

efternoon with his Minister to discuss Kowloon

eituation. He said that while we were dis-

cussing settlement the two arrested persons

were still in prison. If we did not reach

settlement soon, their sentence would expire

and there would then be no act of grace

involved in their release.

2. Ambassador then referred to conversa-

tion with Minister last week and asked whether

suggestion then mentioned that Garden of

Remembrance should be entrusted to two

trustees who might be the Special Commissioner

for Foreign Affairs and Colonial Secretary

of Hong Kong respectively, had ever been put

to the Chinese Government. He asked further

if he could be given any idea of the draft

statement which we told the Minister we were

considering when the new Chinese proposal

brought matters to a standstill.

3.

Having been told that we had not yet

put the suggestion of the two trustees to the

Chinese Government, Ambassador asked whether

you could not be invited to do so. He thought

it would be useful for the Chinese to have this

alternative as well as the one put tọ him by

the Secretary of State yesterday.