CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945 — Page 127

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Extract from the Prime Minister's minute of 11.4.45

General Hurley seemed to wish to confine the conversation to civil banalities. I took him up with violence about Hong Kong and said that never would we yield an inch of the territory that was under the British Flag. As for the leased territory, in connection with the water supply, that did not come up till 1998 or thereabouts. In the meanwhile we would set up distilling machinery which would give us all the water we wanted and more. The General-Ambassador accepted this without further demur.