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1 JAN 1018

FURTHER ACTION.

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Kowloon evictions.

Your telegram No.63 and previous

telegrams.

1.

I am most grateful to you for

keeping me so fully and promptly informed

of developments.

2.

You will have seen Foreign Office

telegram to Nanking No.30 repeated to

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Hong Kong as No.90, giving account of inter-

view with Chinese Minister in London on

13th January. Chinese Ambassador called

at Foreign Office on 14th January to make

further representations. Chinese Minister

also made a further call on the 15th

January in the course of which he put

forward request that no police should be

stationed in Kowloon and that the two men

referred to in your telegram No.54 should be

released pending settlement of dispute over

Walled City of Kowloon. Minister was

informed that request would be passed on but

was given no encouragement to think that it

would be possible for Hong Kong Government

to interfere with the law.

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