DOES NOT INCLUDE HONG KONG.
BRITISH. OFFER TO CHINA.
B.O.W.
RUGBY, Oct. 14.
The contemplated renunciation ot British extraterritorial rights in Ohina did not include the transxerence of Hong Kong back to the Chinese nation, said the Foreign Under-Secretary, replying to a House of Commons question. The proposed agreements lelated only to the surrender of extraterritorial rights in Chinese territory. Mr Churchill has received the following message from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek: "China appreciates deeply the gesture of friendship and goodwill Britain made in determining to abrogate extraterritoriality in China.. We feel certain that this ex» pressive evidence of Sino-British friendship is based on equal and mutual trust and will inaugurate a new and significant era, not only in the Far East, but throughout the entire world. By this voluntary abandonment of obsolete privileges Britain has won a great moral victory." "1 7
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 244, 16 October 1942, Page 6
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142DOES NOT INCLUDE HONG KONG. Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 244, 16 October 1942, Page 6
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