CO129-602-5 Limits of territorial waters 27-10-1949 - 9-12-1949 — Page 24

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Radford 18/11

Mr.

Mr. McNulty

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Hall

Mr.

24/11 F/5.

Mr.

Mr.

Permt. U.S. of S.

Parly. U.S. S.

Your Reference..

DRAFT.

(1)

P.D. COATES, ESQ.,

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F.0.

Saz

4c

(2) C.G.H. CARDO, ESQ.,

ADM RALTY.

Extract opening sentence and X of 'B' of Section 39 X of ordinance attached.

(stit)

Minister of State

Secretary of State

Ansid (7)

(To (2)) M. 0.1906/49.

Dear

Coates

Cards,

23-11-49

+ (1) a'50

(To (1)) Will you please refer to

(To (2)) Thank you for your letter

of the 1st November, 1949 in which you

referred to (To both) the Governor of

Hong Kong's telegram No. 1144 about

the limits of the Colony's

territorial waters off the western

coast of Lantao. I attach a copy of

the section of the Hong Kong

Interpretation Ordinance of 1911 to

which reference is made.

2. It is apparent from the

telegram that Hong Kong have no qualms

about their right to exercise jurisdiction

in waters within the boundaries

described in the 1911 Ordinance (which,

for a

discrepancy

except for a diserépaney in the south

*

consegued with

gutter fren Lange west corner, correspond with the

FURTHER ACTION.

boundaries of the area leased under

the Peking Convention of 1898) and they

are in doubt only as regards waters off

the western coast of Lantao which

lie outside these boundaries.

3.

I find after examining pre-war

prehminemy

papers that the question of the limits

of Hong Kong territorial waters was

considered