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Registry No.
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Secret.
Confidential
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Open.
Draft.
Chinese Ambassador
copy C.0.
aus
20/1
(draft) for concurrence
стрира со
Your Excellency,
تنا
FOREIGN OFFICE, S..1.
January, 1948.
I have the honour to refer to the
representations which Your Excellency has
recently made to me concerning the eviction of
the squatters from the former walled city of
Kowloon. Your Excellency's Minister
Counsellor was good enough to leave at the
Foreign Office on the 13th January an aide-
memoire setting out four points to which he
drew special attention.
AB Your Excellency is aware, the Chinese
Government and His Majesty's Government hold
divergent views about the question of jurisdiction over the so called walled city of Kowloon and I do not propose to discuss these
in this Note. I would however point out that,
except for the period of Japanese occupation
from 25th December 1941 to September 1945, the Hong Kong Government have in fact
exercised sole jurisdiction over the six and
a half acres in question uninterruptedly from
1899 down to the present day, a period of
nearly fifty years.
The facts in the recent incident must be
considered against the above background, and
I should like to set them out shortly for
Your Excellency's information.
The area concerned was formerly occupied
by about sixty five Chinese who during 1935 to
1937 were moved into alternative improved
quarters by the Hong Kong Government,
voluntarily except in three or four cases.
on subsequent to the liberation of Hong Kong by
His/
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