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Secretary of State:
Your Reference.
For Mr. Watson's signature
J. SPICER, ESQ.,
(Sir Stafford Cripps'
Private Secretary)
accpg. draft
FURTHER ACTION.
Copy with copy enclosure
to Mr. Kinna.
zent 20
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Dear Spicer,
With reference to your letter to Kinna
of the 14th January and its enclosure, of which
you sent me a copy, I enclose a note which has
been prepared by the Department on the subject
of the eviction of squatters from the area
known as the "Walled City of Kowloon" in the
Colony of Hong Kong.
My Secretary of State hopes that if
Sir Stafford Cripps finds it necessary to send
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a reply to his Chinese friend, he will feel
able to say that from the enquiries which he
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has made, he is quite satisfied as to the
justification for the eviction of these
was furtiped
squatters, and that the Hong Kong Government
acted throughout in a reasonable and proper
manner.
It is unfortuna's ther
The facts suggest that this affair
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has been worked up and grossly exaggerated
for political reasons, and there is no doubt
can asemel go that
that the Governor of Hong Kong, who has been
kept fully informed of the representations
which have been made by the Chinese Government
in this matter, both in Nanking and in London,
and is aware of the repercussions in China, can custacely be wheed upon to
give the fullest consideration to these
factors.
I am