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very low when compared with what they would fetch in
the market.
Protection is therefore requested, so
that we may live in peace."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also in
receipt of a copy of the Notification issued by the New
Territories District Office (South District) under date 20th
June 1934, forming the enclosure to the above petition.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs have the
honour to observe that the proceedings of the Hongkong Go-
vernment in this case having obviously been at variance
with the spirit of the treaty stipulations, this Ministry,
has already, in a Note dated the 27th July 1933, requested
32 that the Hongkong Government be moved to withdraw their
original design, as is on record. In June of this year
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however further reports were received that the Hongkong
Government had notwithstanding the above request, again issued
a Notification setting a time-limit for the forcible eviction
of the residenta, in apparently complete disregard of the
intentions of the treaties and the sense of this Ministry's
previous Note. The rights of jurisdiction within Kowloon
City have always been patently distinct from the newly leased
territories outside the city which are exclusively under
British jurisdiction; the people within the city therefore
without exception come in every respect under the control
of the Chinese Government and the authority of His Excellency
the Governor of Hongkong cannot of course be exercised with-
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