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FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.

OUT FILE

Despatched

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Draft.

October | ? 1945.

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H.M. Ambassador, Chungking.

Telegram.

No.

Dated

1283

Oct 10.

Cypher O.T.P.

Cabinet distribu- tion.

Refereed W17 Dening

Kandy 696

Copy to:-

Colonial Office

(Mr. Paskin)

War Office

(CA4

Colonel Drew

Hotel Victoria)

F0535/1147/10

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"Tayley Depet funt.

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19.

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My telegram No. 1175 of the 25th

September: re-opening of American and

Chinese Consulates in Singapore and Hongkong/

paragraph 2.

2. Colonial Office have now agreed not to attach fromal

object-to-ahy former stipulations to the

opening of a Chinese Consulate General in

N.P3.

They have taken this decisio Hongkong,/on the understanding that should

with the Foreign off that build,

the Consul General in fact indulge in any

of the activities contemplated in the stipu-

lations mentioned in War Office telegram to

Commander in Chief, Hongkong No. 72653 of

September 9th (repeated to G.0.C. China)

we should be prepared to ask for his with-

drawal on the ground that such activities are

outside the legitimate scope of a Consular

officer's functions.

Provided, therefore, that there have

been no adverse Chinese reactions to

notifications/

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