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AUSULMÇU.

Split Over Hong Kong

China intends to establish a Chinese civil administration over the hitherto British-administered area of Kowloon city, within the Hong Kong colonial boundary.

A Chinese Foreign Office statement, reports BUP from Shanghai today, were being said that arrangements made to restore Chinese civil juris- diction at an early date.

A Chinese spokesman

said that

China never agreed with the ousting of the Chinese administration (under a clause of the Peking Convention of 1898), and now intends to re-establish it there.

THE STAR

17 SEP 1946

Miss Ruston Mr Mayle

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