on 03500/84.
43
Copy.
(F 9257/183/10).
Orig
53552
Extract from Canton Intelligence Report for half
year ended 30th September, 1937.
Communicated by His Majesty's Consul-General
Canton No. 56 of 30th October.)
2. Kowloon City and the New Territories.
While the question of the transfer of Chinese
inhabiting insanitary hovels in Kowloon City has not been
re-opened by the Chinese authorities either here or in
Nanking, Dr. Philip Tyau (
), the Special
Delegate for Foreign Affairs for Kwang tung and Kwangsi,
continues to take a fatherly interest in Kowloon and the
New Territories generally. That this interest at times
can take a questionable form, was shown when an Indian
police constable was accused, and ultimately convicted,
of the manslaughter of a Chinese hawker resident in
Kowloon City last March. On this occasion, before
addressing to me an official request that the family of
the hawker might be given a compassionate grant by the
Government of Hong Kong, he sent his son-in-law and
assistant Dr. Andrew S.F. Lin (
) to Hong Kong
to conduct an independent enquiry into the circumstances of
the case without informing either myself or the Hong Kong
authorities. Dr. Lin explained this somewhat irregular
procedure by saying that he was regarded, presumably by
his father-in-law, as Chinese Consul for Hong Kong, there
being actually no Chinese Consul in that place, but that,
unfortunately, the Government of Hong Kong would not
recognise him as such. Dr. Tyau has also approached me
at various times on other questions, such as that of
granting mining permits in the New Territories, reference
to