CO537-6036 — Page 5

7 G.C.B. Doods (Aduery)

27/2/50.

It has been necessary, as a result of the enquiry put to us by Hong Kong in (1) on the 1949 file, to consider in consultation with the Foreign Office & the Admiralty, the general question of the limits of Hong Kong territorial waters. Research into old papers has shown that the definition of "Colony" in the Hong Kong Interpretation Ordinance of 1911 was framed on the assumption that Hong Kong juris- diction extended over all the land and water within the boundaries shown in the map attached to the Peking Convention of 1898. In 1937, however, different interpretation was placed upon the Convention and Hong Kong were instructed not to give the appearance of claiming jurisdiction in waters beyond the usual three mile limit.

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The Foreign Office and Admiralty both agree that this later interpretation (which, owing to the loss of pre-war records appears to have been overlooked in Hong Kong since reoccupation), should now be

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