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PRIORITY

(TELEGRAM SAVINGRAM

File No. 253

54145/16/18

SEP 1948

Sent.

ITI

42

C.O.

To:

GOVERNOR, HONG KONG. 200 Her

Mr.

Radford 30/8

Repeated to:-

MT

Mr.

Mr.

E - SEP

0.

S. EA 51

hours.

Commissioner Semplice

sir S. Abrahams 3/9 (thered by the Parkin)

Wallace

Permt. U.S. of S.

Parly. U.S. of S.

S. of S.

349

To be transmitted :—

In Clear

Code

ypher

J

Priority :-

- Nil.

Reply urgently required. Important.

Immediate.

Most Immediate.

No.

.194.

Restricted. Confidential. Secret.

Top Secret

(281)

K.

ity.

L'N

No7.c.

1. Conclusion that reference to the International Court should ve voi

insed

-i

follows:

Distribution

.P.D. Coales

Copier to: for Scarlett,

(this includes

Exq

some erry the Foreign office.

ра Nanthing)

Zerpès G..J. F. Hosie, Esq.

Ministry of

Defines

Further action :-

Recing to

H Walleine

secure

Min. Prospence cancuntluce

This dispute arises out of a provision in

the Convention dated 9th June, 1898, between

Great Britain and China respecting an extension

of Hong Kong territory. The provision relates to

the exercise of jurisdiction in Kowloon City and

the issue turns upon the extent to which, upon

its true interpretation, this provision retains

for China the right to exercise jurisdiction

within' the walled City of Kowloon in the

circumstances which have supervened from the date

of the making of this Convention.

In seeking the proper meaning to be attributed

to this provision, it is thought of importance

to bear in mind the nature and extent of the

territory to which the provision relates and the

population resident in Kowloon City at the time

/when

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