Colonial Office.
OUTWARD TELEGRAM
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be kept under Lock and Key.]
W.B. L. Monson. Esq
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USUA! DIS RIELION
[This telegram is of particular secrecy and should be re- tained by the authorised recipient and not passed on].
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No.1636.
WAR CABINET DISTRIBUTION.
TO: CHINA,
FROM FOREIGN OFFICE TO CHUNGKING.
27th December, 1942.
MOST IMMEDIATE.
D. 12.55 p.m. 27th December, 1942.
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Your telegram No.1719 [of 25th December: extraterritor- iality] paragraph 10.
(a) Article 6: Carrying of Commerce.
As indicated in my telegram No.1629 [of 24th December] you are authorised to drop question of national treatment. Since Minister of Foreign Affairs refuses to commit himself in any way on principle of national treatment it is clearly better that you should not (repeat not) address unilateral note to him as suggested in my telegram No.1629 which might only provoke explicit denial of principle by Chinese Government.
(b) Overseas shipping. It is satisfactory that you have secured elimination of phrase relating to "Coastal Ports". I concur in agreed minute proposed in your paragraph 4 subject to insertion of the word "all" before "overseas merchant shipping".
(c) Real Property. In return for giving way on national treatment for commerce you should do your utmost to secure formula on real property. But see final sentence of my telegram No. 1629.
(d) I agree to additional sentence in exchange of notes proposed in your paragraph 9.
(e) Kowloon. See my telegram No.1634 [of 26th December].
2. Full powers for Indian representative will be telegraphed, but Government of India are being asked again whether they would not send special representative.
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