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The Governor of Hong Kong was kept

informed of the representations made by the

Chinese Government to His Majesty's

Ambassador at Nanking, and His Majesty's

Government are satisfied that he has taken,

and will continue to take, those

representations into account. t the same

time, in His Majesty's Government's opinion,

it would be quite wrong for the Hong Kong

Government to retrain slom taking any

administrative measures which are necessary

in the interests of the Kowloon community

as a whole:

whole;

In this connexi on, His Majesty's

Government cannot but feel that the

standpoint adopted by the "National Times"

and the activities

Po On District

of the magistrate of

To on dietriet have, to put it mildly, been

distinctly unhelpful,

I shall be grateful if Y.E. will inform your God. If the facts of the case as set out above, and will represent to them the desirability of taking steps 15

Susure that the matter is looked at in the

proper light in China . of this is done, I feel confident that a satisfactory solution will readily be found,

on I that Keeping with the friendly relations which

Exist so happily actant between our two

countries will thereby be strengthened.

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it would in fact have been give impossible forther as the authority exercising actual

achi control to repain from police action

within the limits necessary to maintain law and order, and repress mot violence.

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