THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
1937.
HONGKONG & KWANGTUNG AUTHORITIES DIFFER OVER TREATY INTERPRETATION Old Kowloon City Residents Refuse To Evacuate Properties
AMBIGUOUS TEXT OF AGREEMENT
CREATES
IMPASSE
No Compulsory Eviction
THE
"Telegraph" Staff Reporter
HE ambiguous wording of p sentence in the Kowloon Extension Agreement between China and Great Britain, which was signed at Peiping in 1898, is causing headaches in China and Hongkong.
Under this Agreement, Britain acquired further addi- tions to its territory on-the mainland for the proper defence and protection of the Colony".
Portion of this territory includes the walled area of old Kowloon City, near the Kai Tack Airport.
Last year the Hongkong Government decided to resume this arca, the proximity of which to modern residential and contem- plated military areas is, it is stated, considered to be a menace to health.
Government gave notice of its intention to resume the area as from January 1, and affered compensation in addition to alternative! buildings and sites to inhabitants who agreed to quit.
More than half of the estimated population of 400 has accepted the Government offer, and their buildings have already been demolished.
But the remaining tenants are proving obstinate. They be lieve that Government has no justification for resuming their ancient property which is, in effect. Chinese territory in the heart of the Colony of Hongkong..
They have twice petitioned for assistance from the Kwang- tung Provincial Government, expressing their opposition against eviction.
The seventh paragraph in thei Kowloon Extension Agreement reads;
"It is understood that there
will be no expropriation or expui-
alon of the inhabitants of the dis- trict Included within the extension,
England Smokes
More 'Empire'
and that if land is required for PIPE USERS' CHOICE
public offices, fortifcations, or the
like official purposes, bought at a fair price.”
14 shall be
10,000,000 lb. a Year From Rhodesia
Sailors On Parade At The
The Valley
His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Little, at the Naval Review at the Valley last week.
HONGKONG SHIPYARDS TO LAY DOWN FOUR KEELS?
GREAT FILLIP TO LOCAL INDUSTRY
"Telegraph" Staff Reporter
HONGKONG is facing one of its busiest shipbuilding
years since the Great War.
Before the end of 1937 there is every probability that the keels of no less than four large modern vessels will be laid down in local shipyards.
It is understood that arrangements have almost been finalised for the construction, at the Taikoo Dockyards, gf two 10,000-ton liners for the Blue Funnel Line.
understand that this sentence hos, as a result of the stand taken
Eighty per cent. of the pipe and in on exten- by the tenants, resulted
tobacco consumed in sive exchange of correspondence he "chewing" tween the Kwangtung Foreign Office England is of Empire origin, said Mr. and the Hongkong
re- C. A. Berrett, United Kingdom re-
presentative of the Rhodesian Tobac garding the correct.
co Association, in a lecture to the The Chinese interpretation is be- lieved
be that to
the-first portion of British Empire League in London.
"The Empire," he stated,
In addition to these two vessels, which will be amongst the the sentence is not qualided by the second portion. It
on. It states quite de- given the working mon a good and faitely that "there will be no ex-cheap smoke and the more discri- largest ever to be constracted in Hongkong, a contract may be let propriation or expulsion of the in- minating smoker a antisfactory tobac
The Chinese authorities co at a cheaper price than he would in the future by the Indo China Steam Navigation Company.
This order will call for the contend, it is understood, that even if have to pay for a foreign tobacco,"
Mr. Berrett stated that all-Empire the land is required
fortifications,
or the like of brands, marketed by several of the construction of two new vessels offices, ficial purposes," it
They will be can only be semiler manufacturers, had been of approximately 2,100 tons and bought, and not expropriated.
accepted happily by the public, no 200 feet length. Hongkong has, it is believed, taken
expropritate
the view powers
It
for
"that the paragraph
to
"public
reference being made to the source of identical, in many respects, with
.
New Use
Helium
the types of tobacco are produced several ships of the existing Blest. For
property or expel the inhabitants,
should it so desire.
the
"SITTING TIGHT" Meanwhile, despite the fact that
that announced Government walled area would be resumed as from January 1, many of the tenants are still "sitting tight" in their old homes, and are point-blank refusing
to move.
the buildings voluntarlly evacuated
being demolished.
RIOTS IN 1899 Under the 1888 Convention, where-
All
In the Empire," he said, "eigar leaf notably the Chaksang, Kutsang,
in North Borneo and
bright, medium, and dark flue-cured.
types in Africa, Canada, India, Aus-
They will differ from these older
tralia, and New Zealand; fire-cured vessels, many
of which were also
and air-cured in Canada, Nyasaland, launched in Hongkong, inasmuch as and India; and Turkish leaf in they will be of most modern design Cyprus, Southern Rhodesia, and the and, like the Blue Funnel ships, will
of the
probably be oil burners. Cape western province
most of the tobacco-producing countries in the Empire, the indus-
AMERICAN TESTS ON
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By mixing helium and oxygen 50
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From the Studio. The (White). 6th, of a series of talks on "The Early Days of Cricket," By R. Abbit,
Shipping circles believe that these try is in its infancy compared with two vessels will, if the Indo China America, yet during the last 30 years Steam Navigation Company adheres Government, it is understood, successful strides have been made, to its decision to build its new ships does not intend to take say drastic until to-day we can proudly say that in Hongkong, be constructed at the action such as compulsory eviction the Empire is capable of producing Kowloon Docks,
which will appeal to the It is interesting to note that this that the latter gas, is present in the The homes of the inhabitants who tobacco
will be the first occasion since 1923 same percentage as in atmospheric
Jon afr it is possible to obtain a have refused to depart have been most discriminating smoker."
the Indo China Navigation scrupulously left untouched, only With regard to Rhodesian tobacco, that
density of air-helium being Mr. Berrett stated that since 1926 Company has placed, its orders in mixture which is only one-third the consumption in the United Kingdom Hongkong yards. Vessels of its large much lighter than the atmospheric the less dense had Increased from 1,000,0001b, to fleet constructed 10,000,000lb. last year, and it was ex. been launched in since 1923 have all nitrogen. With
The last twelve months have been oxygen mixtures obtained by using helium as the diluent patients with pected that this year the total would reach 11,500,000lb.
an extremely busy perlod for this
respiratory difficulty have appeal to all of you," he con- well-known line of steamers, despilte much less muscular effort. Icased, the walled city was to remain cluded, to support the tobacco pro- the shipping stagnation in the Far
In the treatment of the severer under Chinese Jurisdiction, the ducers within the Empire. The East. Chinese authorities then stationed majority of them are ex-Service mon It has at present no less than four attacks of asthma the hellum-oxygen there continuing to exercise the same who have put all their capital into outside vessels on charter, supple-mixtures are said to give relief when jurisdiction as they had under the the Industry."
all other measures have falled, and menting its regular fleet.
in cases with obstruction of the Kwangtung administration, except 60
stated respiratory apparatus it is use of the new mixture has in some instances obviated the necessity for the operation of tracheotomy where by an artificial emergency opening le made below the larynx.
under the New Territories were
for
as was inconsistent with
the
military requirements for the defence
of Hongkong. In the following year, however, serious disturbances took place, which were only quelled with a punishment, loss of lite and, as Chinese Jurisdiction was expelled.
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