Orig. on 54228/1/48.
Extract from a Secret Savingram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for
the Colonies dated 21st
December, 1948.
No. 114.
308
H
6.
The Kowloon City issue showed that it is
merely dormant, when, on November 27th the so-called
Kowloon City Residents' Association held a meeting
to elect a new Committee.
still sleep over-night on the site, but apart from
this manifestation there have been no signs of trouble.
The Kowloon City Residents' Association have no funds,
and so far as the squatters are concerned, they are,
apart from the political aspect of the question, merely
a small factor in the huge squatter problem with which
the Colony is afflicted.
Some seventy or so squatters
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