CONFIDENTIAL.
TOWNING STREET.
82770/31.
February, 1931.
My dear Peel,
I let Wellesley have a copy of your note
on Yowloon and the New Territories (encloved in
your letter of the 12th of November).
He was much interested, but suggested that
the memorandum would have been more valuable if it
had made a more definite distinction between the
territory ceded to us in 1860 and the New
ferritories leased to us in 1898. He points out
that irredentist demands by the Chinese are likely
to be aimed at the latter in the first instance, and
& memorandum in which Hong Kong and ceded Kowloon
were treated together as one unit, and the leased
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 help
us to consider what steps couldbest be taken, or what
HIS EXCELLENCY
SIR WILLIAM Pasl, K.C.H.G.,K.B.~.
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