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H.E.

C. O.

Mr.

Martin.

1/31.

Calder.

Mr.

4.2

M

Mr. Tomlinson.

Sir C. Bottomley.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Sir G. Grindle.

Permt. US. of S.

Parly. U. of S.

Secretary of State.

C:

3

82770/1931. Hong rong.

5

Downing Street,

CONFIDENTIAL.

February, 1931.

Quarto for Sir G. Grindle's sig.

DRAFT.

SIR WILLIAM PEEL,K.S.M.G.,K.B.M.

(45172858/20)

My dear Feel,

I let Wellesley,

have a copy of your note on Kowloon

and the New Territories (enclosed

in your letter of the 12th of Novr)

He was much interested

but suggested that the memorană um

would have been more valuable if it

had made a more definite distinction

between the territory ceded to us

in 1860 and the New Territories

leased to us in 1898. He points

out that irredentist demands by the

Copy to Sir V. Wellesley. LF

from Sir G. Grinule.

Không

(6

Corporate

Chinese are likely to be aimed at the

latter in the first instance, and a

memorandum in which Hong Kong and

coȧed