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Registry No.

F1122/154/10.

Draft.

Dr. Han Lih Wu, Ministry of

Education, Nanking.

From

Sir Stafford Cripps

U.F.S.

H.M. Ambassador, Nanking.

Thank you for your telegram of

the 13th January about the Kowloon

"walled city".

I gather that there have been

considerable misunderstandings locally,

due to misrepresentations of the

Hong Kong Government's action in the

press. I now learn that the facts of

the case have been set out in a note

sent by the Foreign Office to your

Ambassador in London on the 24th

January, and he will no doubt be

telegraphing its contents to his Government. んんん

Sincerely f

I am sure that with the facts

thus explained it will (readily) be

possible for the matter to be settled

in such a way that the friendly

NOTHING

relations existing between our two

countries will not suffer any detriment.

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