CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943 — Page 113

Colonial Office

OUTWARD TELEGRAM

(W.B. L Monson. Esq)

[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be

With the Compliments

of the

kept under Lock and Key.]

Under Secretary of State 2 DEC 1942

for Foreign Affairs

Most

195 SECRET //3

[This telegram is of particular secrecy and should be

retained by the authorised recipient and not passed on]

F8289 828/10

[Cypher]

WAR CABINET DISTRIBUTION

TO CHINA

No. 1615

FROM FOREIGN OFFICE TO CHUNGKING

21st December, 1942,

IMMEDIATE

D: 9. 40 p.m. 21st December, 1942.

ррррр

My telegram No. 1601 [of 18th December: extra- territoriality]

Paragraph 4,

reservations to article 6.

2. Paragraph 6.

Government of India agree to drop

Government of India would not need

to be excepted from any of the three proposed formulae regarding real property but they prefer the second.

O.T.P.