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that claim might be put forward, namely the
"understanding" in the Convention of 1898
"that there will be no expropriation or
expulsion of the inhabitants of the district
included within the extension
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pointed out in his minute of 26/8/33 on 13832/33,
the occasions on which villagers within the
leased territories have been displaced to make
room for public works have not been regarded as
breaches of the Convention of 1898.
The claim of the Chinese Government is
implicit in the following extract from the note
from Wai Chiao Pu to His Majesty's Minister
Nanking Sub-enclosure to 5 on 13832/337:
"Since in accordance with the Convention
the City of Kowloon remains under the jurisdiction
of Chinese Officials then Chinese persons living
within the City naturally have the right to
reside freely there. The present order of the
Hong Kong Government constraining residents
within the City to remove in a body conflicts
both with the explicit text of the Convention
and the original intention at the time of its
conclusion
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Our case is this:
(i) The third Section of the origin:1
Convention reserved jurisdiction within Kowloon
City to the Chinese Officials stationed there
"except in so far as may be inconsistent with the
for
military requirements of the defence of Hong
Kong".
(ii)