CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930 — Page 31

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"Now loon"".

Kowloon is as

recur

as

Hong Kong itself, having been

"ceded" in 1860.

no

The FO. are

doubt thinking of the New

Territories held on a

99 year lease

under the agreement of 1898. There

is

no reason

Why

we should

allow ourselves to be Glackmailed

by threats

to denounce the

lease.

The position has changed

somewhat since

Si willain

Peel wrote his Cetter of 2nd pely. (see his let of 4th Seft - 28). 1

have ascertained that Si S. Wilson was already acknowledged

it, mentioning that a copy of the Customes Agreement fart bas been sent to the FO. In the

Circumstances

it might be best

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