CONFLATION
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TEHING STREST.
Chorruary,
Pobruary, 1931.
My dear Peel,
I lot Fellesley have a copy of your note
on "owloon and the new territories (enclo ed in
your letter of the 12th of novembar).
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Be wa* much interested, but rug erted that the meaorunuus would have been more valuable if it
had made a more definite distinction between the territory eaded to as in 1860 and the New
Territorios leused to ur in 1896. He points out that irredentlet do ds by the Chinese are likely to be glad at the latter in the first instance, ami a memorandum in which Hong Kong and ceded "owloon were treated together as one unit, and the leared territories as another, would enable us to realise what would be the effect of severing the latter, in whole or in part, from the former unit, and heln us to consider what steps coulabest be taken, or what
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