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INWARD TELEGRAM

TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES

COPY FOR REGISTRATION

253

Cypher (0.T.P.)

FROM HONG KONG (Sir A. Granthan)

JUN

D. 23rd June, 1948. R. 24th

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08.25 hrs.)

TIN

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No. 606 Secret.

Addressed to 5. of S Repeated

to British Ambassador, Wanking, No. 83.

"Commissioner-General, South East Asia,

by savingram,

(249/250)

Your telegram No. 691 of 18th June,

Kowloon City.

In effect ve are back (?in a positioú) reached (184). Pt. II in Nanking telegram No. 229 to the Foreign Office with

(187) ..

the difference that instead of an office for Commissioner of Chinese Government now there is office for Chinese Trustco. Same objections apply to this proposal as I set out in my telegram No. 259 to you, to which I invite reference,

Za

I do not think it necessary to comment in detall on Chinese proposals as they do not go anywhere to meet objection that administration and enforcement of law in the Garden must be vested in a single authority. Wore that authority to be other then the police and courts of this

This aspect Colony indescribable coafusion would resalte

of the matter which enstted) was also fully covered in my talegram No. 259, Paragraph 2 under heading "exchange of notes" is impracticable even if joint coart trustees were determined to make it work, While in time of political (word omitted) Garden 'would be used as a place for apeaches by Chinese over whom our courts would havo no jurisdiction.

Ja My Advisers and I are firmly of the opinion that this problem will not be resolved by any weak compromise and that it would be better to risk submitting to arbitration by laternational, Court in order to get the best cource to more lasting bettlement.

Copy sent to:-

Foreign Office

Mr. A.To Scett.