CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930 — Page 336

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

friction between the Colonial Government

and the Nationalist Government of

China. If such situation was

permitted to arise the dominant aim of

promoting good relations between

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Great Britain and China would be defeated.

4.—Lord Tassfield is especially

doubtful-of-the wisdom of introducing

4.

At the same

time

Lord

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that

the question of the British tenure of the

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that

New Territories of Hong Long. In the

fifth paragraph of the telegram to

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Dir . Lepson the Government of

Su. M. Lampson

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the occasim occasim

Hong Kong is oredited with the view

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to introduce

that if the leased territory is

surrendered the Colony would beO ODB

untenable. It will be within Mr.

Henderson's recollection that this

view was also expressed at the Washington

Conference in 1921 by Lord (then lir.)

Balfour on behalf of His majesty's

Government

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