CO129-564-5 Possible removal of Chinese Government Bank's headquarters to Hong Kong 31-8-1937 - 27-11-1937 — Page 9

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As regards the last

regards the last for of

bd. Duncan's

cucicete

certain

extracts from W. Fitzmaurice's

on John's belligrent rybto

bele

were belegraphed to

7. Horry Kory

at the

One

An Lovernor

40.18 7230/2/17 Gen.

Secret. which paper is

moment

not

availabb.

4. Duncan night like to

the preceding

ivinute.

་ཡིག་རིག་ན་ཅ་ན་ག་ནང་

1579.

Asregards M. Gruts minute of 11/9/37 abo,"

the Government of Hong Kong is

being guided by specific instructions from

here on any questions of international law

which confront it, and those instructions are

naturally based on advice which we, like H.M's

Ambassador, get from the Foreign Office direct,

who are the recognised experts on such questions.

The position in this respect is as

follows:

(1)

Extracts from Mr.Fitzmaurice's minute on the

(2)

(3)

possibility of the exercise by Japan of

igin

bellepigent rights were sent to Hong Kong

(see No.18 on General 7230/1/37).

Mr.Fitzmaurice's minute of 13/9/27 on the right

of passage for warships through territorial

waters of other countries was sent to Hong

Kong (see No.72 on the above-mentioned file).

The Foreign Office, in their letter of 12/9/27,

thought