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of his minute of 3/3 that that statement as contained in (182) did not fully meet Colonial Office views. (183) adds what was considered here a further essential point viz. recognition (if not in the public statement, then by separate agreement) that the laws of Hong Kong shall continue to run in the Kowloon City area. First Chinese reactions to this draft statement are in (184) and (185).

3. Turning first to the Chinese draft public statement, the main points of difference from our draft are:

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(a) a name Chung Shan Park is given to the Garden of Remembrance; we did not suggest

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(b) the Garden of Remembrance is to commemorate "Chinese and British nationals", not "allied nationals".

(c) the trustees are to be appointed respectively by the Provincial Government of Kwangtung and "the British Authorities in the leased territories of Kowloon", instead of to be the Special Commissioner for Foreign Affairs (or Chinese Consul-General, if one were appointed in place of the Special Commissioner) in Hong Kong, and the Colonial Secretary.

(a) the Chinese trustee is to have an office in the Garden.

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I be no idea of the significance of (a).

(b) seems to me unobjectionable.

As to (c) it is not clear whether by the phrase "the British authorities in the leased territory of Kowloon", the Chinese mean the Hong Kong Government (if they do, why don't they say so, or some local authority such as the District Officer, New Territories. Since the Chinese proposal is to have their representative appointed by an authority subordinate to the Central Government, it may be that some local New Territory authority is meant, though it is much more likely that the Chinese equate the Government of China with H. M. G. and the Provincial Government of Kwangtung with the Hong Kong Government. I should think the Hong Kong Government should be the authority.

7. (d) is the most controversial of these four points. An office in the Garden for the Chinese trustee only will inevitably give rise to the idea that he controls the Garden. This proposal is of course only a modification of the suggestion in (184) that a portion of the area should be set aside for an office of the Special Commissioner. The Governor of Hong Kong's unfavourable reaction to this suggestion will be found in paragraph 1 of (187). It might perhaps be possible to compromise on the point with an office in the Garden for the trustees

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