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My Telegram No.1769 of the 4th December,1949.
Territorial Waters.
Owing to the loss of records, you are of course
unaware that in 1937, in connection with the Sino-Japanese hostilities, careful consideration was given to the limits
of Hong Kong territorial waters. The view was then taken
that although the map annexed to the Peking Convention of
1898 delimited the leased territory by a line taking in
considerable areas of water, including apparently parts of
the high seas, this did not mean that there was a purported
lease of any waters outside normal territorial waters;
line was merely a delimitation of the area within which all
territory was leased, and accompanying that territory the
normal territorial waters. Deep Bay and Mirs Bay, having
entry of less than ten miles, were recognised as having been specifically Chinese National waters which China could and did
the
lease to us, The Governor was therefore instructed to
avoid any appearance of claiming jurisdiction beyond the
internationally accepted limits of territorial waters and
the Japanese were given a tracing showing these limits.
was considered undesirable at that time to amend the Inter-
Copy behin pretation Ordinance of 1911 or otherwise to attract
publicity.
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