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The Governor of Hong Kong was kept
informed of the representations made by the
Chinese Government to His Majesty's
Ambassador at Nanking, and His Majesty's
Government are satisfied that he has taken,
and will continue to take, those
representations into account. t the same
time, in His Majesty's Government's opinion,
it would be quite wrong for the Hong Kong
Government to retrain slom taking any
administrative measures which are necessary
in the interests of the Kowloon community
as a whole:
whole;
In this connexi on, His Majesty's
Government cannot but feel that the
standpoint adopted by the "National Times"
and the activities
Po On District
of the magistrate of
To on dietriet have, to put it mildly, been
distinctly unhelpful,
I shall be grateful if Y.E. will inform your God. If the facts of the case as set out above, and will represent to them the desirability of taking steps 15
Susure that the matter is looked at in the
proper light in China . of this is done, I feel confident that a satisfactory solution will readily be found,
on I that Keeping with the friendly relations which
Exist so happily actant between our two
countries will thereby be strengthened.
lee nowir
it would in fact have been give impossible forther as the authority exercising actual
achi control to repain from police action
within the limits necessary to maintain law and order, and repress mot violence.
then
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a China
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NOTHING
TO
BE
WRITTEN
IN
THIS
MARGIN.
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