minor casualties is good. In the other case, the bullet has been removed una his condi:ion was reported on the 13th January to be fuir.
5. in the course of the evictions on the 5th January, two men were arrested and charged with inciting the squatters to resist the police. They were subsequently tried and sentenced to three months' hard labour each. One of them admitted in cross- examination that he had previously been in 156th Division of Chinese Army attached to the Political Propaganda Section.
6. Formal representations have been made by the Chinese Government to H.F. Ambassador at Nanking, and the Chinese Minister and the Chinese Ambassador have called on the Foreiya Office with regard to this matter. The reply to the formal representations
is under consideration.
7. The Governor's decision to clear the ales was a normal administrative measure taken as a precaution against the threat or fire and disease. Alternative sites were offered and it was open to the squatters to maove the maturitis of their huta to these sites. Had they done so the evictious would not have been necessary. His Maje: ty's Ambassador, hanking, has of course kept His Majesty's Government and the Governor of Hong Kong informed of the various representations made by the Chinese Government.
8. kr. T.2. Kwok, the chinese Representative in liong konų, raised objection to the proposed evictions at the outset, on the ground of the chineze cisim to jurisoiction. He protested after the evictions on January 5th; and again, on January 12th, after the removal of the re-crected huts, un the last occasion, the Governor remcastrated with him for encouraging the agitators at the outset, instead of telling the aquatters of the action he had taken and advising them to obey the eviction orders.
9.
Before the expiry of the original eviction notices, Dr. T.V. 3oong,. Governor of vangtung (rovince, made and then cancelled & request to the Governor for action to be postponed until he had had time to acquaint himself and the local public with the facts.
Colonial Office,
19th January, 1948.