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EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE 80th

MEETING OF THE Chiefs of Staff HELD. 11. 6·48.

ITEM 7. KOWLOON CITY

244

RECEIVED

16 JUN 1948.

CO

REGV

54145/16

(R482).

(Previous Reference: COS(48)62nd Mtg., Min.3) (236)

COS (48) 70

THE COMMITTEE considered a letter from the Colonial Office reporting a Chinese proposal for a compromise solution for the jurisdiction of Kowloon and seeking the concurrence of the Chiefs of Staff in the reference of this proposal to the Governor of Hong Kong for his views.

SIR JOHN EDELSTEN said that the Chinese compromise proposal in no way met the views of the Chiefs of Staff, as

-L4.