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Hong Kong, at the time of its cession to Great Britain
by the Treaty of Nanking a hundred years ago, was u desolate island with no inhabitants except few
groups of fishermen. It has grown under the direction of the Eritish Government to be one of the great sea ports of the world based upon British law and crier and on the enterprise of all peoples and
nations alike.
The British policy has been and will continue to be that Hong Kong should be free port for the services
of 11 trade and conumerce in the Far East. Hong Kong
is the depot for an incessant flow of people : nẻ gooÊS
in and out of Chinɛ. Of the porulation of nearly
& million residents which it had attained, all had
freely come in of their own choice or were the
children of immigrants who had done so.
If any
prefer to live under Chinese rule there is no let or hindrance to their moving over the border for the
pulpose.
was
Its been centre of settled and orderly condi for the benefit of 11 countries having relations wi Ching throughout the prolonged era of revolutionary
disturbance in South China.
This special role of
Hong Kong may have no less value in post Wor-youre
44. When the Japanese overrun Shanghai and South Chim
the Colony was for 3 years up to December 1941 able toy serve as a channel of supplies to Chine and a refuge for hundreds of thousands of displaced and li ryoly destitute Chinese people, and for num ers of foreign
nationals in Ching
5. Immediately after the war in the uncertain-
political and economie-conditions in Chin when th
protection of extra-territori:l-rights is no
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