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M Pale

Please

I understand

17:

parn. 6 of (1).

M' Sidebotham

has already mentioned to

he

you

whether

question

raised

there in

sovereignty

of the

the heased Teritories

8།

si Hong Kong

rests

with the

emorandum

Chinese Government

period of the lease.

I find that

examined

in 1937

andum by the Freign

Effico Legal Adoriser

The view expressed

at (1) there in

during the

this question

and

there

53852/37

that inasmuch

an

the New Territories

were

leased

and

not

ceded in

strict law, the territory remains

Churère territory under

sovereignty;

but that

residual Chimese in practice the

positin

anomalous since the

leased territory

Weated

in all

respects for the team though it

57

the lease

ceded

hr (2)

to HM.G. 53852/37

Ragged in

had been

in full sovereignty.

however

we

drew

Vol. 5 attached

F.o.

to

The

the attention the

hew officer' opinion of

27th September, 1899

in which they

stated regarding the New Territories

"(

This territory has been ceded is British territory

The questio seems

the

it

Cherefore