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FORCIBLE MEASURES" EXPLAIN KOWLOON INCIDENT
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NANKING, THURSDAY THE INFORMATION DEPARTMENT OF THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY, IN THE FIRST OFFICIAL COMMENT ON TUESDAY'S BRITISH NOTE TO CHINA ON THE KOWLOON INCIDENT, SAID TODAY THAT "FAILURE OF THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES TO GIVE DUE CONSIDERATION TO CHINESE REPRESENTATIONS WERE OF PARAMOUNT IMPORT- ANCE" MIN EXPLAIMING THE INCIDENT.
(THE BRITISH NOTE -NIN REPLY TO CHINESE GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIONS CONCERNING THE EVICTION BY THE HONGKONG AUTHORITIES OF SQUATTERS FROM THE FORMER "WALLED CITY" OF KOWLOON
SAID THAT HUTS IN KOWLOON WHICH HAD BEEN DISMANTLED WITHOUT DISTURBANCE ON SANITARY GROUNDS ON JANUARY 5, WERE REŽERECTED LATER AND RESISTANCE OFFERED TO THE HOMGKONG POLICE.
CIT REGRETTED THE ATTITUDE OF A CHINESE NEWSPAPER, THE NATIONAL TIMES, AND THAT OF A CHIMESE MMGRSTRATE ..630-;50..9 THE PAPER WAS SAID TO HAVE TREATED AS A REAFFIRMATION OF CHINZSE SOVEREIGNTY OVERKOWLOMM;>MOL P THE CHINESE STATEMENT TODAY SAID TI IN MIND THAT THE FOREIGN MINISTRY AND ITS REPRESENTATIVE IN HONGKONG BEFORE JANUARY 5 HAD STRONGLY URGED THE HONGKONG AUTHORITIES AGAINST FORCIBLE MEASURES IN AN AREA WHERE CHINA HAD NEVER WAIVED HER JURISDICTION, AND THAT BEFORE JANUARY 12, THE DATE OF THE INCIDENT, THE MINISTRY AND ITS REPRESENTATIVE MADE EVEN STRONGER REPRESENTATIONS TO THE SAME EFFECT.
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