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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.)
4.
2.
Kowloon City and the New Territories.
While the question of the transfer of Chinese inhabiting
unsanitary hovels in Kowloon City has not been re-opened by
the Chinese authorities either here or in Nanking, Dr. Philin
Tyau (
), the Special Delegate for Foreign Affairs
for Kwangtung 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 man laughter 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