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9 NOV 1949

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DRAFT. DESPATCH

SECRET.

HONG KONG

NO. 53

GOVERNOR

✓ (copy of No. 3 - available in I.R.D. Registry)

to be headed copy of X-X on pages 11-12 of No. 4

"Extract from Summary Records of proceedings of Special Committee on 26th August, 1949.

✓ copy of 9A

www

available

in I.R.D. Registry

FURTHER ACTION. Copies to:-

Mr. Fletcher Cooke

(New York); Colonial Attache,

Washington;

Mr. Scarlett (F.0.);

Copy for 25113/11/49

VI.R.D.

Sir,

I have the honour to inform you

that during the course of the meetings

of the Special Committee on information

transmitted under Article 73 (e) of the

United Nations Charter, held at Lake

Success in August and September, the

Chinese Delegate, Mr. Li, made certain

observations on behalf of his Government

relating to sovereignty in Kowloon and

the New Territories and the transmission

of information to the United Nations

under Article 73 (e) of the Charter in

respect of those territories.

2. Early in the proceedings of

the Special Committee, when the list of

territories in respect of which information

is transmitted was being reviewed, Mr. Li

called attention to a Secretariat paper

before the Committee (General Assembly

document A/915/Add. 1 of the 22nd August,

1949, a copy of which is enclosed as

Annex I to this despatch) in which it

was stated that, whereas in 1946 the

United States had tentatively included the

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