CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943 — Page 103

F8391/820/10 OUTWARD TELEGRAM

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colonial Office

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24 UES 1942

[This telegram is of particular secrecy and should be retained by the authorised recipient and not passed on].

[Cypher].

WAR CABINET DISTRIBUTION.

To:

CHINA.

No. 1622

FROM FOREIGN OFFICE TO CHUNGKING.

D. 5.25 p.m. 23rd December,1942.

23rd December, 1942.

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IMMEDIATE.

My telegram No. 1608 [of 19th December: leased territory].

Kowloon

You are authorised to seek a solution on the lines of compromise suggested by Han Li-wu.

2. Reply to His Majesty's Government to the Chinese communication would be to the effect that the future of the New Territories is outside the scope of the present agreement and His Majesty's Government. cannot discuss it now; but if the Chinese Government desire that terms of the lease of these territories should be reconsidered that is a matter which in His Majesty's Government's opinion should be discussed at the Peace Conference.

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