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GOVERNOR,
HONG KONG.
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1 JAN 1018
FURTHER ACTION.
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Mh. Magle
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Kowloon evictions.
Your telegram No.63 and previous
telegrams.
1.
I am most grateful to you for
keeping me so fully and promptly informed
of developments.
2.
You will have seen Foreign Office
telegram to Nanking No.30 repeated to
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Hong Kong as No.90, giving account of inter-
view with Chinese Minister in London on
13th January. Chinese Ambassador called
at Foreign Office on 14th January to make
further representations. Chinese Minister
also made a further call on the 15th
January in the course of which he put
forward request that no police should be
stationed in Kowloon and that the two men
referred to in your telegram No.54 should be
released pending settlement of dispute over
Walled City of Kowloon. Minister was
informed that request would be passed on but
was given no encouragement to think that it
would be possible for Hong Kong Government
to interfere with the law.
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