CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942 — Page 41

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November 1942.,

H..Ambassador, Chungking.

No...

(Cypher)

War Cabinet

Distribution.

Copies as usual.

for Aduty. and C.O

Concurrence.

Your telegram No. 1574 [of 17th

November:

Kowloon Leased Territory.

I am not prepared to consider the

les

New Territory in connexion with present

treaty since this not only has nothing

to do with extraterritoriality but

being, as stated in the Convention, an

enlargement of British territory is in

an entirely different category from the

concessions and settlements in China in

which we are relinquishing our special

rights.

2. You should therefore inform

the Chinese Government that H.M.G.

Tel

regard the New Territory as outside the

scope of the present treaty.

But you

may add, in writing if necessary, that

on the victory of the United Nations we

look for a reconstruction in the Far

East which will secure peace and order

for all and in which we should expect all

the/