(1)
The Chinese Ministry for Foreigy
rs, as
anticipated, put out a counter statement on the question of
Old Kowloon City. One report has it that the question was raised
out of a desire to attract notice on the part of the Magistrate
of the Po Un District, which adjoins the New Territories of
Hong Kong. This official is said to have prevailed on the
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to get T. W. Kwok, their
representative in Hong Kong, to take up this question. Kowloon
City is, of course, merely a very dilapidated old Chinese village
about 61 acres in extent in the suburban part or the Kowloon
Peninsula near Kai Tak airport. There is no legitimate purpose that
Chinese jurisidiction there could possibly serve at present. A
Chinese General living in Hong Kong and believed to have some
unofficial functions here on behalf of Chiang Kai-shek is said
to have made a special personal visit to Old Kowloon City and to
have commented privately on the ridiculousness of any pretension
to establish a separate jurisdiction in such a place.
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