F 5490/2398/10
1933
sir,
PAPER E.
No. 2.
CORY
Chinese Inspector General of Foreign
affairs to H.M. Consul jeneral, Canton.
28th June 1933.
With reference to the orders of Hongkong Government
requiring the removal of all residents from Kowloon
City, I have the hon ur to inform you of an appeal made
to me by representatives of these reluents. These
people stated they had been inha itants of Kol on for
generations without trouble. In the re.en of kwang Hau of
the late Ching Jynasty, Kowl un was leased to Great Britain,
but it was stipulated then that only arcas outside the city
were leased, the city itself being retained under Chinese
control, and the inhabitants continuing to attend t their
pursuits as usual. Lately, however, the District Officer(?)
for the southern District of the Hongkong Government issued
oruers requiring all those inhabitants to move their houses
to enable the laying out of a public park. They accordingly
appealed for negotiations to be conducted for the protection
of their inter to.
I have, accordingly, transmitted their aplication
to the Ministry of Foreign affaire from which I am now in
receipt of a rely ordering me to conduct inv.stigations and
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to take up n gotiations in accordance with treaty
rovisions.
I have alsu received a communication from the Kwangtung
Provincial Government informing me of a similar a peal
from the Ko:loon City residents. The provincial Government,
b.sides ordering the Magistrate of 0-ün tʊ conjuct investigations has allo requested me to take up the
nedeustry negotiations,
I have the hon ur to refer to the ino-British
Treaty concluded on the 21st day of the 4th Mon, 24th Year
of Kwang Hau (9th June, 1398) for the expansion of the ilong Kong
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