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February, 1948 repeated for im'ormation to Hong

Kong.

Your tolerem No. 149: Kowloon.

You wil by now have soon Hong Kong telegram

No. 173 to Jecretary of State for Colonies.

I am in substantial agroarwent with the views

oxpressed therein by Governor of Hong kong.

2. I shall accordingly be grateful if you will Apress the Chinese Rinister for Foreign Affairs once again to accept my original proposal in

regard to care and maintenance of the Garden.

I think there is still a chance that he may prove

amonable in the light of the undertaling on bur

part, which you may now give, regarding the two

arrested man, ngwely that, if agreement is socured,

the Governor of Hong Kong will, as an act or

praco, remit the balance of their sentence on the

date of publication of a joint statement on our

ogTecmont.

Should you find it impossible to make progres:

on those lines, you may Popose to the Minister

for Foreign Affairs that responsibility for care

ey triglia and maintenance of the Garden should be vested)in a joint comittoe of custodians, consisting of

an equal number of nominees appointed by each of

the two governments, and jointly responsible for

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its control, I consider that the cost of laying out and maintaining the Garden should Eikeviso † borne jointly by the two Government but that

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