CO537-3706 — Page 248

P.S Folde

{KW 261,

2611148

In reply to your note of the 21st January I send you as promised a note prepared in the Department in the background of the recent Kowloon incident.

Accounts of this were rossiy

distorted and exaggerated in a section of the Chinese press and this appears to nave contributed to the anti-British outbursts at Canton and elsewhere.

As regards the China angle of the matter (as apart from the Hong Kong angle) Mayher is in a better position than I to give you information.

I am therefore sending

a copy of

/your

J Harrison, Esq., M.P.