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TELEGRAM/SAVINGRAM

To:-

GOVERNOR,

HONG KONG.

Radford

Mr.

28/10 Repeated to:-

Wallace

Mr.

02. 1948

Mizsir Sidney Abrahams 27/0

Mr. Sidebotham

Mr. Paskin

3070. 30/KT

To be transmitted :-

Priority :-

Ir Clear

Nil.

Permt. U.S. of S.

аврит

Parly. U.S. of S.

S. of S.

Distribution :-

(293)

Sode Cypher off

Reply urgently required.

Important.

Immediate.

Most Immediate.

Ansel (298)

File No.

54145/16/48

Pt. III

Recypherds

Sent!

17.15 hours.

30.10.2018

194...

Cost

No. 1115

Restricted Confidential. Secret.

Top Secret.

Following personal from Paskin, begins.

1. Your telegram No. 956 about Kowloon City

is now being considered in consultation with

other Departments concerned.

2.

Grateful if, meanwhile, you will resolve

what appears to be an ambiguity in the first

two sentences of paragraph 7 of that telegram.

These might conceivably refer either to the

possibility of the Hong Kong Government's case

International

for going to/ Court failing to prevail with us here

or to the British case failing to

prevail with the International Court.

P.O. (On Scarlett) 4 профили (пайда) M/Defener (In Martin) other

Further action :-

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3. If the former meaning is intended then

it is not clear to us why you put forward the

minimum conditions detailed in (a) (d) of

paragraph 7, since the alternative of a

compromise solution, such as the consulate-

general, proposal, would secure all of these and

advantages in addition - e. g. Chinese jurisdiction

would not (repeat not) have been admitted.

Lo If on the other hand the second

meaning mentioned in paragraph 2 above is

intended, then the terms of paragraph 7 seem

not