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12 Press Cutting
13 Extract from BBC Monitoring Service
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Mr. Mayle.
18-9.46
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12.9.46
In connection with the Press report in the file attached, and another which I have placed on top of the file, you will also I think wish to see two extracts from B.B.C. Monitoring Digests and a third paragraph (marked) in the digest for 14th September.
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All these papers deal with a claim which apparently is being made that the Government of China still has rights of jurisdiction within Kowloon City. It may be that this assertion is the first step towards the claims which we have been warned to expect from the Chinese in regard to the New Territories and even perhaps the Colony of Hong Kong.
The Colonial Office list gives the following information:-
"In 1898 an agreement was concluded with the Chinese Government for the extension of Hong Kong territory by an area adjacent to British Kowloon, in the province of Kwang- tung, including Mirs Bay and Deep Bay, this area to be leased for 99 years; a 'stipulation was included that within the walled city of Kowloon (which lies outside of British Kowloon) the Chinese officials then stationed there should continue to exercise
jurisdiction except so far as might be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong, but that within the remainder of the newly-leased territory Great Britain should have sole jurisdiction. In 1899 the Chinese officials ceased to exercise jurisdiction within Kowloon City,
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