CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942 — Page 82

Colonial Office

(W.B. L. Monson. Elsd

17 NOV 1942 With the Compliments

of the

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Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

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This telegram is of particular secrecy and should be

retained by the authorised recipient and not passed on 789 [CYPHER] WAR CABINET · DISTRIBUTION

FROM CHINA

FROM CHUNGKING TO POESIGN OFFICE

Sir H. Seymour.

No. 1558

SECRET

D. 12.20 p.m. 15th November, 1942 R. 10.40 p.m. 15th November, 1942.

15th November, 1942.

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My telegram No. 1551.

I am communicating confidentially to my United States colleague texts of material Chinese amendments and additions including exchange of notes but excluding text of Kowloon clauses in regard to which I am informing him that Chinese have also proposed addition to our Article 4 "clauses providing for termination of Kowloon lease 1898 and the return of lessed territory to China".

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