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Peminenka
Following this revocation of the special
status of the City of Kowloon it was therefore the
the walled city
case that in
en no less than elsewhere in the
"New Territories" all the laws of Hong Kong applied
and the Governor's jurisdiction was in no way
specially limited.
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In the revival of Chinese nationalist
sentiment after the War an irredentist attitude
regarding the "New Territories" of Hong Kong has
mildly manifested itself. The development of
Kowloon into a large modern city with wide streets
of stone buildings has reached and passed the old
Chinese walled city and it has for some time been
clear that the continued existence of that small area
could not long be exempted from the building and
town-planning developments in the surrounding area.
The leases of the small Chinese pig-keepers and
others who reside in the area expired at the end of
1933 and the Govt. resolved not to renew the leases
but to allow a year's grace for the inhabitants to
take up other (and superior) accommodation elsewhere
on favourable terms.
The intention was to devote
part at any rate of the walled city site to be laid
out as a public park. This provided the occasion
for an agitation to be whipped up amongst certain
Chinese in Canton and the walled city against an
alleged infringement of Chinese rights in the area,
based upon the Anglo-Chinese Convention of 1898.
The position in the walled city and the intentions
Confidential of the Govt. are set out in the Governor's despatch of gots Jan. 1934.
No.1 in 33744/34 The Foreign Office (No.3 in the-
same fite) gave us their views as regards the strength
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and