Extract from YUET WAH PAO Newspaper dated 5.9.46.
(Published in Canton).
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(Special). To exercise the authority as provided in the
treaty of 1898 by which China has sovereignty over the old
Kowloon-city, west of the Kai Tak Airfield, the Po On Magistrate
has turned the islands of Manshan, outer Ling Ting, Lee-ma and
Wai-pon in the south of Hong Kong into a village known as the
Manshan Village. Cheng Tuk, a native of the village was
The chief of the Civil Affairs
appointed head of the village.
section of the magistrate government, Tam Ka-lum, recently
proceeded to Hong Kong to see T.K. Kwok, Special Commissioner
of Foreign Affairs, and to accompany him to the Kowloon City
to plan for its administration. Chinese in Hong Kong are
welcome to invest money to help to bring prosperity to the
Kowloon City.