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Hong Kong 14 Hong Kong
Secret Sov. 51
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Sew 610 Comf
5/6/50
Mr Hallo
In (11) we
termes as tahananeretta
extent
informed the four of the new boundaries
of H. V. Territorial waters,
as
shawn
an
a
chart
prepared by the Hydrographer of the Navy.
In (13)
the bar informs us
that hitlies to the
cf chart behind police have confined their patrelling to the waters.
(12)
enclosed in
'the
the old square buendary' which differs in two important respects from 'the new sinuous
on the Hydrographer's chart.
The first difference is that
1
Live
the S.E.. of H.K. need
по
a
largeish
area an
longer be patrolled
Ime
Since little patrolling has in fact been done in this (which is well out to sea) the Gart is arranging for the patrols to be withdrawn frum
arca
(vide para 2.)
this area
is The second difference is
that the new
boundary
takes in
an
area
to the
S.W. which hitherto
had not been patrolled by police, the occasionally
visited by the Navy (vide para 2).
line is
сие
Our
much more
This new
satisfactory then the 013
a passage
in
very "which appeared to deny
own
из
waters around the S. W.-appr
LANTAU Island" (vide para 5)
end of
The Govt
therefore proposes to start (carefully) to patrol this
area with
police beats, but, since the
new
Communists are
very
active in this area
incidents
are
band to
occur,
Since
The seeks our
learly
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